The wonder clock, or, Four & twenty marvelous tales : being one for each hour of the day (1887)
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911, Pyle, Katharine, d. 1938 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 184
t they should like to know. Oh, said Master Jacob, I am about to send my little black goat onan errand ; if you will wait you shall see for yourselves. Then what did he do but hang the basket around the goats neck. Go home to your mistress, said he, and tell her to boil the beef andcabbage for… … as though the ground were hot under it. But whether it ever really wenthome or not, I never heard. As for the priest, the provost, and the mayor, you may guess how theygrinned at all of this. Good land sakes alive ! And did Master Jacobreally mean to say that the little black goat would tell the…
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