The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy part 2 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 74
er by success-fully breaking through this picket-line andcarrying her off, that he is allowed to have hisbride. As a father, John idolizes his boys, but feelskeenly the disgrace brought by the advent of adaughter. He does not consider her worthy of aname, but calls her Number i, 2, or 3, as the… … their joy, they rub shoulders until tired out. Johnshaves, not his face, but his head and eyebrows;he whitens his shoes; he wears a long gown, andcarries a fan. He assumes the duties of milliner,laundress, and dressmaker; he pays the doctor aslong as he is well, but stops payment as soon ashe is…
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