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 238
he was most exquisite. Close by stood alittle chimney-sweep, as black as a coal, but ofporcelain too. He was just as clean and pretty asanother ; as to his being a sweep, that was onlywhat he represented ; and the porcelain manu-facturer could just as well have made a prince ofhim as a… … for a little black he certainly ought to have been^He was quite close to the shepherdess ; both stoodwhere they had been placed ; and as soon as theywere put there, they had mutually promised eachother eternal fidelity; for they suited each otherexactly — they were young, they were of the…
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