My Awkward Cousin, Or, Caroline's Visit to Her Great-aunt's Poultry YardAmerican Sunday-School Union, 1848 - 107 pages |
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... laughing and making a good joke , and never felt ashamed of walking on our parlour carpet with her great iron - shod shoes . Every time she came , she brought me fresh eggs from her poultry yard , and fruits from her garden , and loaded ...
... laughing and making a good joke , and never felt ashamed of walking on our parlour carpet with her great iron - shod shoes . Every time she came , she brought me fresh eggs from her poultry yard , and fruits from her garden , and loaded ...
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... laughed together . They both regretted the separation , and wrote to me that they thought of me constantly , but they were glad they had not taken me with them , as their business occupied their whole time . They wished me to write to ...
... laughed together . They both regretted the separation , and wrote to me that they thought of me constantly , but they were glad they had not taken me with them , as their business occupied their whole time . They wished me to write to ...
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... laughing , keep- ing on my guard all the time , lest he should be angry . " Come here ! Dicky , come here ! " said ... laughed till the tears came , at the fears of Dicky and myself . But she soon came to find me in my room , and good ...
... laughing , keep- ing on my guard all the time , lest he should be angry . " Come here ! Dicky , come here ! " said ... laughed till the tears came , at the fears of Dicky and myself . But she soon came to find me in my room , and good ...
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... laugh at any thing they know nothing about , and do not understand , proves that they know and understand every thing , and that they are naturally su- perior to those who are enlightened by study ! Yielding to this folly of youth and ...
... laugh at any thing they know nothing about , and do not understand , proves that they know and understand every thing , and that they are naturally su- perior to those who are enlightened by study ! Yielding to this folly of youth and ...
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cousin , and to laugh ( at least to myself ) at that which he was about to relate for the credit and honour of the ... laughing . " Whatever you are laughing at , " said Augustus , with a grave air , " it pleases me , my little cousin ...
cousin , and to laugh ( at least to myself ) at that which he was about to relate for the credit and honour of the ... laughing . " Whatever you are laughing at , " said Augustus , with a grave air , " it pleases me , my little cousin ...
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