This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...nap. All was now hushed up again, but again my anger burst forth at her biding me get up.' She begins thus loftily: --'Death the righteous lore to see, But from it doth the wicked flee.' Then suddenly breaks off (as if with laughter)--'I am sure they fly as fast as their legs can carry them!' 'There is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...nap. All was now hushed up again, but again my anger burst forth at her biding me get up.' She begins thus loftily: --'Death the righteous lore to see, But from it doth the wicked flee.' Then suddenly breaks off (as if with laughter)--'I am sure they fly as fast as their legs can carry them!' 'There is a thing I love to see, That is our monkey catch a flee.' 'I love in Isa's bed to lie, Oh, such a joy and luxury! The bottom of the bed I sleep, And with great care within I creep; Oft I embrace her feet of lillys, But she has goton all the pillys. Her neck I never can embrace, But I do hug her feet in place.' How childish and yet how strong and free is her use of words!--' I lay at the foot of the bed because Isabella said I disturbed her by continial fighting and kicking, but I was very dull, and continially at work reading the Arabian Nights, which I could not have done if I had slept at the top. I am reading the Mysteries of Udolpho. I am much interested in the fate of poor, poor Emily.' Here is one of her swains--'Very soft and white his cheeks, His hair is red, and grey his breeks; His tooth is like the daisy fair, His only fault is in his hair.' This Is a higher flight: --'dedicated To Mrs. H. Crawford By The Author, M. F. Three turkeys fair their last have breathed, And now this world for ever leaved; Their father, and their mother too, They sigh and weep as well as you; Indeed, the rats their bones have crunched, Into eternity theire laanched. A direful death indeed they had, As wad put any parent mad; But she was more than usual calm, She did not give a single dam.' This last word is saved from all sin by its tender age, not to speak of the want of the n. We fear' she' is the abandoned mother, in spite of her previous sighs and...
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