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 248
XVIII. … NCE there was a king who had a pear-tree which borefour-and-twenty golden pears. Every day he wentinto the garden and counted them to see that nonewere missing. But, one morning, he found that a pear had beentaken during the night, and thereat he was troubledand vexed to the heart, for the…
Fairy tales · Illustrated children's books
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