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 278
Then the fiddler put the princess into the basket, and the two fellowsabove hauled her up. By and by down came the basket again, and now itwas the fiddlers turn. Suppose, says he, that they are up to some oftheir tricks! So he tumbled a great stone into the basket in the place ofhimself. Sure… … 262 THE STAFF AND THE FIDDLE. Then if anybody was ever down in the dumps the fiddler was thefellow. For there he was down in the pit, and he could no more get outof his pickle than a toad out of the cellar window. After he had been therefor ever so long a time, he saw a pretty little fiddle that…
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