This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...four times his own length. Gluck was terribly frightened at the appearance of his visitor, and looked at him without speaking a word. But the old gentleman, turning round to look after his fly-away cloak, caught sight of Gluck's little yellow head jammed in the window, with its mouth and eyes very wide open ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...four times his own length. Gluck was terribly frightened at the appearance of his visitor, and looked at him without speaking a word. But the old gentleman, turning round to look after his fly-away cloak, caught sight of Gluck's little yellow head jammed in the window, with its mouth and eyes very wide open indeed. "Hello!" said the little gentleman, "that's not the way to answer the door. I'm wet; let me in." To do the little gentleman justice, he was wet. His feather hung down, dripping like an umbrella; and from the ends of his mustaches the water was running into his waistcoat pockets, and out again like a mill stream. "I beg pardon, sir!" said Gluck. "I'm very sorry, but I really can't." "Can't what? " said the old gentleman. "I can't let you in, sir, --I can't, indeed; my brothers would beat me to death, sir, if I thought of such a thing. What do you want, sir? " "Want?" said the old gentleman, crossly. "I want fire and shelter; and there's your great fire blazing, crackling, and dancing on the walls, with nobody to feel it. Let me in, I say; I only want to warm myself." Gluck had had his head, by this time, so long out of the window, that he began to feel that it was really cold; and when he turned and saw the beautiful fire, his heart melted within him. "-He does look very wet," said little Gluck; " I'll just let him in fqr a quarter of an hour." So round he went to the door and opened it; and as the little gentleman walked in, there came a gust of wind through the house that made the old chimneys totter. " That's a good boy," said the old gentleman. " Never mind your brothers. I'll talk to them." "Pray, sir, don't do any such thing," said Gluck. " I can't let you stay till they come; they would be the death of me." " Dear me," said the...
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