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 253
an, too, was walking up to the house tobeg,—she must have got round by some byway,—but she threw away her bundle, and gave chase toTom likewise. Only my lady did not give chase;for when she had put her head out of the window,her night-wig fell into the garden, and she had toring up her ladys maid,… … —not even when the fox was killed in the conserv-atory, among acres of broken glass, and tons ofsmashed flowerpots—such a noise, row, hubbub,babel, shindy, hullabaloo, and total contempt ofdignity, repose, and order, as that day, whenGrimes, the gardener, the groom, the dairymaid.Sir John, the…
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