Ashton, John, b. 1834 · London, Chatto and Windus · leaf 216
hool, buthe would learn nothing. God called the old man aside, his Mother being tender ofher son, maintained him by her own labour as well as shecould; but all his delight was in the chimney corner, and heeat as much at once as would serve five ordinary men. At tenyears old he was six feet high and… … Toms Mother being a poor widow, went to a rich farmershouse, to beg a bundle of straw, to shift herself and her sonThomas. The farmer being an honest charitable man, bid her 196 Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century. take what she wanted. She, going home to her son Thomassaid, Pray go to such a…
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