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 240
- press-in-spector-head-superintendent Goatslegs. How-ever, I think there is not so very much to be proudof. Am I to have her, or am I not? The chimney-sweep and the little shepherdesslooked so touchingly at the old Chinese; theyfeared he would nod, but he could not, and it wasdisagreeable to him… … WHAT THE GOOD-MAN DOES IS SURE TO BE RIGHT! I AM going to tell you a story that was told tome when I was a little one, and which I like bet-ter and better the oftener I think of it. For it iswith stories as with some men and women, the older they grow the pleasanter they grow, andthat is…
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