Stories from old-fashioned children's books brought together and introduced to the reader (1900)
Tuer, Andrew White, 1838-1900 · London : The Leadenhall Prefs, Ltd. · leaf 291
E Hodge knocked one morning at Lucys cottagedoor— Pray give me a light, said he, for our tinder is sobad, mother has been trying in vain for twenty minutes tostrike one. Lucy very kindly gave him a light, but he hadnot got three yards from the cottage door before the windblew it out ; so he… … 272 THE JUVENILE TELL-TALE. TOM AND THE OLD MAN. Hollo, Tom, said tlie old man in the picture, are youturned gardener ? I thought you had been a carpenter. Vcs, replied Tom, that I was once, but I had anaccident and hurt my leg, and so I was obliged to go away,and here I am in the midst of turnips…
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