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 442
before Icould find my silverhatchet, in a place where everything has thebrightness of silver; at last, however, I found itin a heap of chaff and chopped straw. I wasnow for returning: but, alas ! the heat of thesun had dried up my bean; it was totally uselessfor my descent; so I fell to work, and… … with the hatchet in my right, I cut the long, nowuseless, end of the upper part, which, when tied t(?the lower end, brought me a good deal lower:this repeated splicing and tying of the rope didnot improve its quality, or bring me down to theSultans farm. I was four or five miles from theearth at…
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