Wood Magic: A FableCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1882 - 263 pages |
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Page 31
... keeping apples remained , and from these Bevis , with great deliberation , chose the biggest , measuring them by the eye and weighing them in his hand . Then down - stairs again with a clatter and a bang , down the second stairs this ...
... keeping apples remained , and from these Bevis , with great deliberation , chose the biggest , measuring them by the eye and weighing them in his hand . Then down - stairs again with a clatter and a bang , down the second stairs this ...
Page 44
... almost in the winter if the sun shines warm for an hour , and they keep on all day in the summer , and till it is quite dark and the stars are out , besides getting up before the cuckoo to go on again . Yet they are 4.4 WOOD MAGIC .
... almost in the winter if the sun shines warm for an hour , and they keep on all day in the summer , and till it is quite dark and the stars are out , besides getting up before the cuckoo to go on again . Yet they are 4.4 WOOD MAGIC .
Page 48
... keep one swathe between him and the scythes , which are extremely sharp and dangerous instru- ments . Sir Bevis repeated these promises so seriously , and with so demure and innocent an expression , that no one could doubt but that he ...
... keep one swathe between him and the scythes , which are extremely sharp and dangerous instru- ments . Sir Bevis repeated these promises so seriously , and with so demure and innocent an expression , that no one could doubt but that he ...
Page 64
... keep on talking while I was singing , but I suppose , as you are only an ignorant Weasel , you do not understand good manners , and therefore I will condescend so far as to inform you of the measures taken by my noble friend the Rat to ...
... keep on talking while I was singing , but I suppose , as you are only an ignorant Weasel , you do not understand good manners , and therefore I will condescend so far as to inform you of the measures taken by my noble friend the Rat to ...
Page 70
... keep the rats out ; but one of the bars had rusted off and was broken , and that was the Mouse's track to the corn bin . " The Weasel put out his head , glanced round , saw no one , and without waiting to listen rushed out into the ...
... keep the rats out ; but one of the bars had rusted off and was broken , and that was the Mouse's track to the corn bin . " The Weasel put out his head , glanced round , saw no one , and without waiting to listen rushed out into the ...
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