Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 656
, the man said : No, I will not do anything at all for a crossboy! So he had to do it himself. Then he ran against a man andhurt him, and when he got to market he tipped over a basket of eggs. And the market-man said that the big boy was too cross to work,and that he could not pay him any more… … was not a bit cross. So the market-man said: Little boy, you are ofmuch more use than a big, cross boy, and you can work for me, and takehome lots of pennies to your mamma, and But, just as Harold got to that part of the story, the door opened, andthere was his papa! Papa was so glad to find his…
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