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 245
ed up at the long branches,and fancied they were now in the depth of thegreen wood. The confectioner of the town cameout, and set up his booth there ; and soon aftercame another confectioner, who hung a bell overhis stand, as a sign or ornament, but it had noclapper, and it was tarred over to… … they had penetrated to the end of the forest, andthat they had always heard the wonderful soundsof the bell, but it had seemed to them as if it hadcome from the town. One wrote a whole poemabout it, and said the bell sounded like the voiceof a mother to a good dear child, and that nomelody was…
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