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 53
ng thattime you tell me my name you shall keep yourchild. Now the queen lay awake all night, thinking ofall the odd names that she had ever heard, anddispatched messengers all over the land to inquireafter new ones. The next day the little man came,and she began with, Timothy, Benjamin, Jere-miah,… … Crook-shanks, and so on, but the little gentlemanstill said to every one of them, Thats not myname. The third day came back one of the messen- gers, and said, I can hear of no one other name ■,but yesterday, as I was climbing a high hill amongthe trees of the forest where the fox and the harebid…
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