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 344
ng thenight. The doctorracked his biain invain; he could notthink of any strata-gem to relieve his em-barrassment ; but hiswife, who was morefertile in invention,said: A thought hasjust come into myhead ; carry the dead body to the terrace of ourhouse, and let it down the chimney of our Mus-sulman… … The Jewish doctor approving the proposed ex-pedient, his wife and he took the little dwarf up tothe roof of the house, and placing ropes under hisarmpits, let him down the chimney into the pur-veyors chamber so dexterously that he stood iip-iight igiinst the wall, as if he had been alive. They were…
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