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 358
his mouth for a cigar, andasked him the way to Shiny Wall; so he bolted thesprat head foremost, and said: If I were you, young gentleman, I should goto the Allalonestone, and ask the last of theGairfowl.* She is of a very ancient clan, very 28. Gairfowl, or garefowl, was another name for the great… … 340 Tom, the Water Baby nearly as ancient as my own; and knows a good dealwhich these modern upstarts dont, as ladies of oldhouses are likely to do. Tom asked his way to her, and the King of theHerrings told him very kindly, for he was a cour-teous old gentleman of the old school, though hewas…
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