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 293
. JNIany a shower wetted us through during thesedays, and we had scarcely time to hurry back toRockburg and house our cattle and possessions be-fore the annual deluge began. Never before had this dreary season seemed soshort and pleasant; with Jenny among us, the usualfeeling of weariness and… … not an Englishman. She herself already spokeFrench, and therefore easily learned our native lan-guage and spoke it fluently before we were releasedfrom our captivity. XVI THE ENGLISH WARSHIP j^^^^^^jiANY wondrous tales were told or readin turn by the boys and Jenny duringthe long evenings as we sat…
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