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“Try agin, Mose, now not too hard! Easy like! There! Jest a leetle bit more! Stop! Hold on! Shucks! Everythink’s went wrong! Here, we’ll start agin.” When Edith planned to turn her pupils’ recital into a great Spring Festival, for the benefit of the sufferers, all the town applauded, and asked how it could help. Moses returned to work with jelly and soot mingling in a purple streak on cheek and chin..
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Inside the big fine house there couldn’t be any fun either. Only those stately halls and magnificent rooms, one after another, with handsome furniture upholstered in silk damask, with great gold-framed mirrors, but with the shades always drawn down. The rooms were so immense that every footstep echoed in them. And oh! how careful one had to be for the sake of that miserable china that Uncle Isaac had collected so much of. In the cabinets it was no trouble, but when it stood on tiny little tables, Johnny Blossom did not like it at all. He scarcely dared to breathe when he went anywhere near the tables lest he should knock something off. Uncle Isaac had once shown him all the china and explained how old and rare and precious it was.I tried logging in using my phone number and I
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Father and Mother sat in the study, Mother with her handkerchief in her hand and with red eyes.
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Then Moses commenced. He ran up and down a chromatic scale of puffs and groans and sniffles, ending with a cadence that sounded like, “Gosh dern!” “I think you’ve broke my neck, kid,” he said, feebly, as quaking Billy helped him to his feet. They looked at her a minute, dropped reluctantly to the floor, and retired. “Don’t Job look jist like Mariar Mifsud goin’ to meetin’,” gurgled Betty..
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