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 83
thing but hearing hersing. Amongst the rest came the soldier to whomthe horn belonged, and as soon as she saw him shewinked to her maid, who slipped slily throughthe crowd and went into his tent where the hornhung, and stole it away. This done, they both gotsafely back to the palace ; the besieging… … Poor fellows ! they began to think what was nowto be done. Comrades, at last said the secondsoldier, who had had the purse, we had betterpart, we cannot live together, let each seek hisbread as well as he can. So he turned to theright, and the other two to the left; for they saidthey would rather…
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