Macé's fairy book : home fairy tales = contes du petit-château (1867)
Macé, Jean, 1815-1894, Booth, Mary L. (Mary Louise), 1831-1889 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 240
the pound,thinking her some peasants cow escaped from themarket. What are you doing there, you young vaga-bond ? cried the shop-keeper, a little, plump, red-faced man, who, with his spectacles on his nose,and his invoices in his hand, was carefully exam-ining the number and contents of the bales.… … do not hurt me. It was tlie cow tliat threw meliere. He told his story wdth somewhat less assur-ance, it is true, than he had told it the first time.The shop-keeper shook his head, with a significantlaug:h. Do you expect a business man like me to be-lieve such stuff? said he. No matter; sinceyou…
Fairy tales
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