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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 222

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, I remain firmly here. See, there goes achip thinking of nothing in the world but of him-self — of a chip ! There s a straw going by now.How he turns I how he twirls about! Dont thinkonly of yourself, you might easily run up againsta stone. There swims a bit of newspaper.Whats written upon it has… … glittered splendidly; then the Darning-needle be-lieved that it was a diamond ; but it was a bit ofbroken bottle ; and because it shone, the Darning-needle spoke to it, introducing herself as a breast-pin. I suppose you are a diamond ? she observed. Why, yes, something of that kind. And then each…

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