Little Nineteenth-century Child: And Other StoriesWilliam Mullen & Son, 1878 - 374 pages |
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... MAY IN THE WOODS . VII . MAY AMONG THE FAIRIES VIII . THE DOG AND THE RAVEN IX . POLLY AND HER MISTRESS X. AUNT EUPHEMIA'S CABINET Frontispiece Page 8 · 33 40 , 43 46 104 268 288 • 352 · LITTLE NINETEENTH - CENTURY CHILD . As S wet and.
... MAY IN THE WOODS . VII . MAY AMONG THE FAIRIES VIII . THE DOG AND THE RAVEN IX . POLLY AND HER MISTRESS X. AUNT EUPHEMIA'S CABINET Frontispiece Page 8 · 33 40 , 43 46 104 268 288 • 352 · LITTLE NINETEENTH - CENTURY CHILD . As S wet and.
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... fairies were only girls dressed up and painted . In these times to talk of Red Riding - hoods and Jack Giant - killers , and all the rest of them , is too absurd . ' " While thus talking to herself she was passing through a small ...
... fairies were only girls dressed up and painted . In these times to talk of Red Riding - hoods and Jack Giant - killers , and all the rest of them , is too absurd . ' " While thus talking to herself she was passing through a small ...
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... fairy . " Penelope Anne certainly was very much aston- ished now . " Thank you , my dear Nineteenth - Century Child , ' said the fairy . ' You have relieved me from a horrible oppression under which I have suffered for ages . A cruel ...
... fairy . " Penelope Anne certainly was very much aston- ished now . " Thank you , my dear Nineteenth - Century Child , ' said the fairy . ' You have relieved me from a horrible oppression under which I have suffered for ages . A cruel ...
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... fairy , I am very pleased . I certainly do think , as you say , ' - though the fairy hadn't said it ' that the human race is improving . We are getting more clever than we used to be , and by the time we have properly instructed our ...
... fairy , I am very pleased . I certainly do think , as you say , ' - though the fairy hadn't said it ' that the human race is improving . We are getting more clever than we used to be , and by the time we have properly instructed our ...
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... fairy , who had been watching her all the while . " What have you done to me ? ' cried poor Pene- lope Anne . ' You cruel , cruel creature ! I feel sure that you have changed me like this ; and it is very ungr - ungrateful indeed of you ...
... fairy , who had been watching her all the while . " What have you done to me ? ' cried poor Pene- lope Anne . ' You cruel , cruel creature ! I feel sure that you have changed me like this ; and it is very ungr - ungrateful indeed of you ...
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