Wood Magic: A FableCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1882 - 263 pages |
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... walked round the garden along beside the box - hedge to the patch by the lilac trees ; they were single lilacs , which are much more beautiful than the double , and all bowed down with a mass of bloom . Some rhubarb grew there , faster ...
... walked round the garden along beside the box - hedge to the patch by the lilac trees ; they were single lilacs , which are much more beautiful than the double , and all bowed down with a mass of bloom . Some rhubarb grew there , faster ...
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... walked out into the field to search for it . When Pan missed him , he followed , and presently catching scent of a rabbit , the spaniel rushed down a furrow , which happened to be the very furrow where Bevis had tumbled . Going after ...
... walked out into the field to search for it . When Pan missed him , he followed , and presently catching scent of a rabbit , the spaniel rushed down a furrow , which happened to be the very furrow where Bevis had tumbled . Going after ...
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... walked along the hedge , he thought the briar was too prickly to cut , and the thorn was too hard , and the ash was too big , and the willow had no knob , and the elder smelt so strong , and the sapling oak was across the ditch , and ...
... walked along the hedge , he thought the briar was too prickly to cut , and the thorn was too hard , and the ash was too big , and the willow had no knob , and the elder smelt so strong , and the sapling oak was across the ditch , and ...
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... walked in among the flags that were coming up so green and strong . Then they thought of the tallet over the stable , -perhaps he had climbed up there again from the manger , over the heads of the great cart - horses , quietly eating ...
... walked in among the flags that were coming up so green and strong . Then they thought of the tallet over the stable , -perhaps he had climbed up there again from the manger , over the heads of the great cart - horses , quietly eating ...
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... walked all round the field , and back home down the middle . By - and - by he sat down and looked at the mowers , who were just finishing the last corner before they went into the meadow by the brook . While he was sitting there a ...
... walked all round the field , and back home down the middle . By - and - by he sat down and looked at the mowers , who were just finishing the last corner before they went into the meadow by the brook . While he was sitting there a ...
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