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Hope on; or "The house that Jack built." (1800)

New York, Carlton & Porter · leaf 63

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s-pered hurriedly, O Jacky, comeaway as quick as you can. So Jack began to collect the littlethings which they might take, theirmothers Bible, two little plates andmugs which she had given them, andthe remains of a loaf which they hadhad the day before, together with afew ragged clothes which… … Jack and Maggie turned out. HOPE ON. 61 The landladys heart smote her asshe saw the two children go shiveringalong the damp pavement, and shethought for a moment of the onlychild she had ever had—a little girlof about Maggies age—who was ly-ing in the grave-yard; but then sheslammed the door,…

Children's stories, American

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