Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 135
was the childrens mother and lovedthem all; but finally, weeping as though her heartwould break, she gave her consent and went sobbingto bed. Now when his parents began to talk about thismatter, little Hop-o-my-thumb had not yet goneto sleep; and hearing his mother weeping he creptsoftly away from… … HOP-O -MY-THUMB UKOPlED PEBBLIiS warm place and spent the rest of the night thinkingof what he had heard. Next morning as soon as it began to grow hghthe got out of bed and went to a brook that flowednear the house, where he filled his pockets with smallwhite pebbles, and then ran back to the…
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