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 149
r than their lives. Healso told them the virtue of his wishing-hat, andcommanded them not to part with those jewels,but to keep them in common, and live friendly to-gether, and not to make any person privy to theirvirtues ; For, said he, I have concealed themforty years, and never revealed them to… … N the days of King Al-fred, there lived a poorwoman, whose cottagewas in a remote countryvillage, many miles fromLondon. She had beena widow some years, andhad an only child namedJack, whom she indulgedso much that he never paid the least attention toanything she said, but was idle, careless,…
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