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“You and Edith are fairies,” he said when his mother came again to the room, “to rustle such pretty togs for the new sister in a night.” His mother was piling his plate again with griddle cakes. She clapped him into her own warm bed, and incredibly soon things were sizzling over the alcohol lamp. Suddenly, all heads were raised and a sigh of satisfaction escaped Mrs. Wopp’s lips..
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Clarence brought out his high-school books to display before the simple country boy the profundity of his learning. He opened his “Euclid” and Moses, sitting at the table, was vastly impressed with the sight of angles and triangles, and rash but interesting statements about abc being equal to bed. His attitude toward Clarence became one of utter abasement as that budding Archimedes produced his exercise book covered with squat-shaped triangles gleefully pursuing circles whose rims were horribly mangled by reason of defective compasses.I tried logging in using my phone number and I
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The man swore and looked for a cudgel.
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“This milk happens to be cream. I’ve been wondering what kind of a dessert will take all this.” “Put a nose an’ eyes over his own planner an’ you’d think there’s the man hisself,” flung back Mrs. Wopp. Norah Bliggins carried in a little basket several carrots of various sizes and complexions, all carefully scrubbed as became respectable members of the vegetable family, and shining as sweet and clean as the face of the child. These must have put to shame their forked brother, for that perturbed carrot rolled heavily to a corner and hid his grimy visage. “I’m going to work as soon ’s school’s out; it’s for you and May Nell, too, you know.”.
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