Bear, Gilly, Gabriel, Gilbert W · New York : Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Co. · leaf 118
nswer, borne upon thewind. And I and my dear ones are up here because wecant be down below, on the ground. Well, why cant you? The Pater Familias steered his whole crew, table, bed andpots and pans and all, toward Peterkin. We owe all ourmisery to What? To the toothless villain? interrupted… … Familias. If it were not for him, we should now be downon the ground where we belong, living most sensible livesin our homes . . . and not flying from horizon to horizonabove the tree-tops. We were happiest of the Kingdoms.But one day, when we were folk of the earth, there came ^ /r»f-^frv- 100 THE…
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