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 190
e Tin Soldier in the middle of it; and sohe sailed down the gutter, and the two boys ranbeside him and clapped their hands. Goodnesspreserve us ! how the waves rose in that gutter,and how fast the stream ran ! But then it hadbeen a heavy rain. The paper boat rocked upand down, and sometimes turned… … and it became as dark as if he had been in hisbox. Where am I going now ? he thought. Yes,yes, thats the Goblins fault. Ah! if the littlelady only sat here with me in the boat, it mightbe twice as dark for what I should care. Suddenly there came a great water-rat, whichlived under the drain. Have…
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