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 433
have, as I have since learned, areceptacle at the bottom for venomous creatures;in short, I gave myself up as lost, for the lion wasnow upon his hind legs, just in the act of seizingme; I fell involuntarily to the ground with fear, 408 Baron Munchausen and, as it afterwards appeared, he sprang over… … ,?qhW T». CBA» THE LION HAD JUMPED INTO THE CROCODILE S MOUTH violent but unusual noise, different from any soundthat had ever before assailed my ears; nor is it atall to be wondered at, when I inform you fromwhence it proceeded: after listening for some timeI ventured to raise my head and look…
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