The book of elves and fairies for story-telling and reading aloud and for the children's own reading (1918)
Olcott, Frances Jenkins · Boston New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 384
to abeggar. Her proud cousins said it was just likeher mean spirit, but Childe Charity did not mindthem. She scraped the pots for her supper thatnight and slept on a sack among the lumber,while the old woman rested in her warm bed. And next morning, before the little girl awoke,the old woman was up… … CH1LDE CHARITY CAME OUT AND ASKED THE OLD WOMANTO TAKE HER SHARE OF THE SUPPER THE STORY OF CHILDE CHARITY 351 should come to the back door but the old woman,again asking for broken victuals and a nightslodging. No one would listen to her or give her a mor-sel, till Childe Charity rose from her…
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