My Awkward Cousin, Or, Caroline's Visit to Her Great-aunt's Poultry YardAmerican Sunday-School Union, 1848 - 107 pages |
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... seemed so strange to me . I arose , and putting aside a corner of the curtain , saw what it was . The two pigeons appeared enormously large , but as they were only pigeons , I took courage and turned my eyes out upon the extended plain ...
... seemed so strange to me . I arose , and putting aside a corner of the curtain , saw what it was . The two pigeons appeared enormously large , but as they were only pigeons , I took courage and turned my eyes out upon the extended plain ...
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... dropped on my knees , and prayed as I never had before . My soul seemed to rise in gratitude to God . I admired him in his greatness and his goodness , and the thought that my parents en- joyed at the 14 MY AWKWARD COUSIN .
... dropped on my knees , and prayed as I never had before . My soul seemed to rise in gratitude to God . I admired him in his greatness and his goodness , and the thought that my parents en- joyed at the 14 MY AWKWARD COUSIN .
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... seemed to me ready to swell up ; the geese prepared to hiss and give me a blow with their wings or bill , and my aunt , without knowing it , made me still more afraid , by saying , " It is strange that Caroline never shows herself in ...
... seemed to me ready to swell up ; the geese prepared to hiss and give me a blow with their wings or bill , and my aunt , without knowing it , made me still more afraid , by saying , " It is strange that Caroline never shows herself in ...
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... his head first to one side , and then to the other , to look at us from either eye . In this posture he seemed so well to deserve the name of foolish fellow , or ninny , which my aunt had just called him , 28 MY AWKWARD COUSIN .
... his head first to one side , and then to the other , to look at us from either eye . In this posture he seemed so well to deserve the name of foolish fellow , or ninny , which my aunt had just called him , 28 MY AWKWARD COUSIN .
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... seemed determined not to come one step further . " If Augustus was here , " said my aunt , " he would not have to call you so many times ; is it not so , Dicky ? What is it that frightens him - can it be your great hat ? No ! that can't ...
... seemed determined not to come one step further . " If Augustus was here , " said my aunt , " he would not have to call you so many times ; is it not so , Dicky ? What is it that frightens him - can it be your great hat ? No ! that can't ...
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