The Gift story book, or, Short tales written for children (1850)
Dame Truelove · Boston : Phillips, Sampson · leaf 69
ve him pleasure. (60) MARIA; OR, THE LITTLE SLATTERN. LITTLE Maria B was so slatternly and so careless of her clothes, that she » never was fit to appear before any body,without being first sent to her maid tobe newly dressed. If she came to break-fast quite nice and clean, before twelveoclock you… … MARIA; OR, THE LITTLE SLATTERN. 61 At dinner, no one liked to sit near her,for she was sure to throw her meat intotheir laps, pull about their bread with hergreasy fingers, and never failed to oversether drink upon the table-cloth. One day, her brother ran into thenursery in great haste, desiring…
Children's stories, American
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