Finikin and his gold pippin. An original tale (1852)
Chatelain, Clara de, 1807-1876 · Boston, Crosby, Nichols · leaf 66
it of chalk in his pocket (forhe had refused to stop and play at merils the day before, being 52 FINIKIN AND HIS GOLD PIPPINS. sent on an errand), and having crumbled this to pieces in his hands,lie managed to take a firmer grasp, and after desperate efforts, toreach the top of the tree. He now… … By the time he reached the ground, he found to his consterna-tion that it was twilight. The boys had picked up all their plumsand had gone; but seeing a light in the distance he went up toit, when he found it proceeded from a fruit chamber of white marble,filled with gold and silver filigree…
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