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Not long after they were again in great want , and the children heard the woman at night in bed say to their father : " We have eaten up everything again but half a loaf , and then we are at the end of every- thing .
Not long after they were again in great want , and the children heard the woman at night in bed say to their father : " We have eaten up everything again but half a loaf , and then we are at the end of every- thing .
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She spoke very quietly and without looking di- rectly at the woman . She kept perfectly still , allow- ing the old woman to study her , as she sat at the desk seemingly occupied with some writing . For a moment the room was absolutely ...
She spoke very quietly and without looking di- rectly at the woman . She kept perfectly still , allow- ing the old woman to study her , as she sat at the desk seemingly occupied with some writing . For a moment the room was absolutely ...
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66 There was an old Woman toss'd in a basket up Ninety times as high as the moon ; Where she was going , I couldn't but ask it , For in her hand she carried a broom . " Old woman , old woman , old woman , " quoth I , " O whither ...
66 There was an old Woman toss'd in a basket up Ninety times as high as the moon ; Where she was going , I couldn't but ask it , For in her hand she carried a broom . " Old woman , old woman , old woman , " quoth I , " O whither ...
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Contents
HISTORICAL SUMMARY OF CHILDRENS | 96 |
William Pène du Bois 1917 | 199 |
FABLES | 214 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Book of Children's Literature |
| Editor | Lillian Hollowell |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Rinehart, 1955 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 5 Aug 2008 |
| Length | 697 pages |
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