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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 326

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ing there. Alas, said she, what have you done! the baby is sleeping there, andhas been sleeping there all the morning. When the blacksmith heard this he scratched his head, and looked upand looked down, for he had burned his fingers with the hot end of thebargain after all. All the same, there was… … At the end of seven days up came the dwarf and knocked at the black-smiths house. Well, and is the baby ready? said he, for I have come to fetch it. But the blacksmiths wife begged and prayed and prayed and beggedthat the baby might be spared to her. Let us keep it for seven years atleast, said…

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