Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 531
h hisball had taken its unlucky leap, and stared with-anxious expectation. The gurgle in the pipe creptsteadily upward, the tone all the while growinghigher and clearer, till whish ! came a dash ofwater over the trough, nearly drenching the school-master, while the ball bounded airily upon theeaves… … 1HE KING AND THE HARD BREAD. .8,8.] THE KING AND THE HARD BREAD. 5°3 THE KING AND THE HARD BREAD. By J. L. WHEN you want a thing done well, do it your-self, is an old saying, and a very good one ; but itis not always possible or desirable to carry out thisadvice. Therefore it is sometimes better to…
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