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 29
should report to her all the news theyheard. One day, while she was absent, the mas-ter came to look at the state of the crops. Itis full time, said he, to call in all my neighborsand get my corn reaped. When the old Larkcame home, the young ones told their mother whatthey had heard, and begged her… … and the corn more ripe, and nothing done, Thereis not a moment to be lost, said he : we cannotdepend upon our neighbors: we must call in ourrelations, and turning to his son, Go, call youruncles and cousins, and see that they begin to-morrow. In still gi-eater fear the young onesrepeated to their…
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