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 168
me to see it for many miles round It seemed for his pleasure provided. Of the cares, and fatigues, and distresses of life, > This spider was thoroughly tired :So leavinn those scenes of contention and strife,(His children all settled) he came with his wife. To live in this cranny retired. He… … THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD THE NOTORIOUS GLUTTON. 137 For when (as sometimes it would chance to befall) Just when his neat web was completed,Brush — came the great broom do.wn the side of the wall,And perhaps carried with it, web, spider, and all. He thought himself cruelly treated. One day, when…
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