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More Celtic fairy tales (1895)

Jacobs, Joseph, 1854-1916, Batten, John Dickson, 1860-1932, ill · New York : Putnam · leaf 154

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sto catch our friend the fox, and had stopped all the earths The Russet Dog 127 in cold weather. One evening he fell asleep in his hut ;and when he opened his eyes he saw the fox sitting verydemurely at the side of the fire. It had entered by thehole under the door provided for the convenience of… … fellow get up. So he found the mans shoes, and puttingthem into the fire, wondered if that would make theenemy move. I shant get up for that, my fine gentleman, cried theTod-hunter. Stockings followed the shoes, coat and trousers sharedthe same fate, but still the man sat over the hole. Atlast the…

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