The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 139
ickly. The king wasoVe r j o Je d athearing the goodnews, and beinga n X io u s to bfreed from thosevermin, which ^nmuch spoiled hispleasure, di-~-turbed his mind,and made all Insenjoyments bui-densome, desiredto see this sin-prising creatuie.saying, • t isuch a thing. Iwill load youi ship with… … clear of them, otherwise they would destroy allmy goods. But his majesty would take no de-nial, saying, No price shall part us. The cat beingsent for, and thetables beingspread, the ver-min came as be-^B fore; then put-ting her on thetable, she fell towork at once,and killed themm a trice. Thenshe…
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