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... sick . I am going to have a new suit of blue broadcloth clothes to wear every day and to play in . Mother tells me that I may have any sort of buttons I choose . I have not done anything 19 LETTERS AND LETTER WRITING.
... sick . I am going to have a new suit of blue broadcloth clothes to wear every day and to play in . Mother tells me that I may have any sort of buttons I choose . I have not done anything 19 LETTERS AND LETTER WRITING.
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... play about , as usual . There was no dinner yesterday , to speak of ; I had for my share only a piece of biscuit that might have been round the world ; and if Columbine got anything at all , I didn't see it . I made a grab at one of two ...
... play about , as usual . There was no dinner yesterday , to speak of ; I had for my share only a piece of biscuit that might have been round the world ; and if Columbine got anything at all , I didn't see it . I made a grab at one of two ...
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... play a very elaborate kind of hopscotch . The boys play horses exactly as we do in Europe ; and have very good fun on stilts , trying to knock each other down , in which they do · not succeed . The children of all ages go 32 LETTERS AND ...
... play a very elaborate kind of hopscotch . The boys play horses exactly as we do in Europe ; and have very good fun on stilts , trying to knock each other down , in which they do · not succeed . The children of all ages go 32 LETTERS AND ...
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... play horses and balls grow ready- made on trees ; which is rough on toy shops . The whips are so good that I wanted to play horse myself ; but no such luck But what I really wanted to tell you was this : besides the tree - top toys ...
... play horses and balls grow ready- made on trees ; which is rough on toy shops . The whips are so good that I wanted to play horse myself ; but no such luck But what I really wanted to tell you was this : besides the tree - top toys ...
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... , coaches , wagons , play - houses ; all the bustle and wickedness round about Covent Garden ; the very women of the town ; the watchmen , drunken scenes , rattles ; life awake , if you awake 44 LETTERS AND LETTER WRITING.
... , coaches , wagons , play - houses ; all the bustle and wickedness round about Covent Garden ; the very women of the town ; the watchmen , drunken scenes , rattles ; life awake , if you awake 44 LETTERS AND LETTER WRITING.
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