Jackanapes. Daddy Darwin's dovecot. The story of a short life (1887)
Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty, 1841-1885, Eden, Horatia K. F. Gatty · Boston, Roberts Brothers · leaf 125
n he wasencumbered with a nurse. Now he was his ownmaster, and might, by courage and energy, becomethe master of that delightful downy, dumpy, yellowthing that was bobbing along over the green grassin front of him. Forward ! Charge ! He aimed 2O JACKANAPES, well, and grabbed it, but only to feel… … come up with it; for it was bound for the pond,and therefore obliged to come back into line. Hefailed again from top-heaviness, and his prey es-caped sideways as before, and, as before, lost groundin getting back to the direct road to the Pond. THE TWO YELLOW THINGS. 21 And at the Pond the Postman…
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