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 440
as not always with me. I had themisfortune to be overpowered by numbers, to bemade prisoner of war ; and, what is worse, butalways usual among the Turks, to be sold for aslave. [The Baron was afterwards in great favorwith the Grand Seignior, as will appear hereafter.]In that state of humiliation my… … THE WATER RAN OUT TRAVELS OF BARON MUNCHAUSEK 401 all the day long, and against night to drive themback to their hives. One evening I missed a bee,and soon observed that two bears had fallen uponher to tear her to pieces for the honey she carried.I had nothing like an offensive weapon in myhands…
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