Bear, Gilly, Gabriel, Gilbert W · New York : Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Co. · leaf 34
danced a jig—which was Peterkins way of showing how happy and thank-ful he was. So you may be sure it was a very merry jig hedanced! Then he went wisely back and pushed and pulled at hisPumperkin until it was high and dry upon the shore. Nexthe lifted his cold stove out and set it in a dark little… … So he searched the length of yellow sand. But he foundnothing there excepting a few empty shells, pink and gray,like the glow of a pearl. He searched the mosses under thepalm trees—but only a few nuts had fallen from the tuftsoverhead, and these were so hard and so bitter that the taste 28 THE…
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