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 85
, hast thou theheart to lose thyown children ? Her husbandbegged her toremember howvery poor theywere; she wouldnot consent; shewas jjoor, but shewas their moth-er. Then hebade her thinkhow she mustsee them die ofhunger, and soat length she aa-senterl and wentweeping to bed.Now Hop-o-my-Thumb… … could not sleep a wink all night, so busy was hethinking what he should do. He rose early andwent to the banks of a brook near by, where he filled hispockets withsmall white peb-bles, and thenreturned home.The family allset out togetheras usual, butHop-o-my-Thumb saidnothing to hisbrothers of…
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