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 217
his house; then hemeasured out a wholebushel full of gold forLittle Claus, who hadalready received onefrom the farmer, sothat now he had a barrow full. I have been well paid for my horse, said heto himself when he reached home, entered his ownroom, and emptied all his money into a heap onthe floor.… … LITTLE CLAUS AND BIG GLAUS. 183 What can he, want it for? thought BigClaus ; so he smeared the bottom of the measurewith tar, that some of whatever was put into itmight stick there and remain. And so it hap-pened ; for when the measure returned three newsilver florins were sticking to it. What does…
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