A FAIRY TALE FOR A LAND-BABY 3 and a master sweep, and sit in the public-house witha quart of beer and a long pipe, and play cards forsilver money, and wear velveteens and ankle-jacks,and keep a white bull-dog with one gray ear, andcarry her puppies in his pocket, just like a man.And he would have… … could. How he would bully them, and knock themabout, just as his master did to him; and make themcany home the soot sacks, while he rode before themon his donkey, with a pipe in his mouth and a flowerin his button-hole, like a king at the head of hisarmy. Yes, there were good times coming ; and,…
Fairy tales · Chimney sweeps
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