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. 1898 Excerpt: ...fun being a clown--" "I've heard that sometimes clowns are very melancholy people, Billy." "Oh, they could n't be! Why, they 're made to make folks laugh. They 're just as happy--they always have a trick horse to sell, and his name is January. I wish my father'd buy him--You'd see a clown riding on a donkey, wrong end ...
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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. 1898 Excerpt: ...fun being a clown--" "I've heard that sometimes clowns are very melancholy people, Billy." "Oh, they could n't be! Why, they 're made to make folks laugh. They 're just as happy--they always have a trick horse to sell, and his name is January. I wish my father'd buy him--You'd see a clown riding on a donkey, wrong end first, in the parade, if you could go down to Capitol Street. I wish you could go, grandmother," twisting the scissors round his thumb till they were in danger of flying off and putting an end to seein" altogether. "Well, yes, so do I. But I can't, my dear little son. So let us talk of something else. And don't bite that wax any more, if you please; it is n't made to chew." "I don't believe you ever saw a parade, or you would n't want to talk of something else," said Billy, reproachfully. "No, I never did. Now, Billy, that's a glove needle, and that's a bodkin. Put them right back where you took them from!" "Never--saw--a--circus--parade! Oh, grandmother!" half under his breath, as if the neglect in her education must not be spoken of too loudly. "Then it's all the more reason you should see this," he exclaimed, dropping the wax and the scissors and the bodkin. "Why, it's the biggest circus in the whole world! And it's the biggest parade in America. It's the great Biblical and Scrip-tural show--" "Is it, truly? A real holy show? Now, if you '11 kindly pick up the things you dropped--" "Yes, I will--I will. But I wish you could see that parade. Why, there's a troop of elephants--" "A troop of elephants! 1 should want to run the first thing, and I could n't. So, you see, it's just as well as it is." "Oh, no, indeed, they '...
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Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill. Good with no dust jacket. 297 pages, plus 6 pages illustrated ads. Brown decorated cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Ex-Library copy; with typical markings. Remains of paper library label on spine. Slight spine lean. Spine extremities and corners rubbed, bumped. Some rubbing along edges. 1/2" ink mark on rear board. A bit of light surface rubbing.; B&W Illustrations; GFH12A; Ex-Library.
Add this copy of Hester Stanley's Friends to cart. $61.07, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Palala Press.
