Mary: A Nursery Story for Very Little ChildrenMacmillan & Company, 1893 - 180 páginas |
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... thought Mary . It was difficult for her to remember the days , for she was not yet four years old . She was only going to be four soon . Mamma had told her her birthday would come in May , and that this year it would be on a Thursday ...
... thought Mary . It was difficult for her to remember the days , for she was not yet four years old . She was only going to be four soon . Mamma had told her her birthday would come in May , and that this year it would be on a Thursday ...
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... thought Mary . " P'raps my birfday isn't going to be in May this time . " For if it changed about from one day to another last year it was Wednesday , and next year it would be - oh , it was too difficult to remember that - mightn't it ...
... thought Mary . " P'raps my birfday isn't going to be in May this time . " For if it changed about from one day to another last year it was Wednesday , and next year it would be - oh , it was too difficult to remember that - mightn't it ...
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... thought knitting and cross - stitch work were much harder than reading . But she had to learn them , because mamma said too much read- ing was not good for such a little girl , and would make her head ache , and mamma bought her pretty ...
... thought knitting and cross - stitch work were much harder than reading . But she had to learn them , because mamma said too much read- ing was not good for such a little girl , and would make her head ache , and mamma bought her pretty ...
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... thought the hill of knowing would be much nicer to go up that way , and that she might begin it now - just a little bit at a time . She thought this all quite plain inside her own mind , but she could not have told it to anybody . Very ...
... thought the hill of knowing would be much nicer to go up that way , and that she might begin it now - just a little bit at a time . She thought this all quite plain inside her own mind , but she could not have told it to anybody . Very ...
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... thought Mary ; " I wonder if the fairies p'raps come and dance on it when I'm asleep . " For she had seen fairy rings on the grass in the fields sometimes when she and her brothers were out walking , and nurse had told her about them ...
... thought Mary ; " I wonder if the fairies p'raps come and dance on it when I'm asleep . " For she had seen fairy rings on the grass in the fields sometimes when she and her brothers were out walking , and nurse had told her about them ...
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