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 154
, having ended his supper, he Give me something to amuse memy money-bags. Which will you have, my dear ? saidwife, humbly. My money-bags, because they are the heaviestto carry, thundered he. She brought them, staggering under the weight;two bags — one filled with new guineas, and theother with new… … cried,■ my harp or the ing of the money, which he knew was his poorfathers, and wished it was his own; it would givehim much less trouble than going about sellingthe golden eggs. The giant, little thinking hewas so narrowly observed, reckoned it all up, andthen replaced it in the two bags, which he…
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