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Jackanapes; Daddy Darwin's Dovecot; The Story of a Short Life

Jackanapes; Daddy Darwin's Dovecot; The Story of a Short Life

Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

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ISBN10: 1150673141
ISBN13: 9781150673146
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.38 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
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. 1896 Excerpt: ...woman. This explains why five out of the young lady's money-bags bore the following inscriptions in marking-ink: Savings bank, Clothing club, Library, Magazines and hymnbooks, Three-halfpenny club; and only three bore reference to private funds, as House-money, Allowance, Charity. It was the bag bearing this last and greatest name which the parson's daughter now seized and emptied into her lap. A ten-shilling piece, some small silver, and two-pence halfpenny jingled together, and roused a silver-haired, tawny-pawed terrier, who left the hearthrug and came to smell what was the matter. His mistress's right hand--absently caressing--quieted his feelings; and with the left she held the ten-shilling piece between finger and thumb, and gazed thoughtfully at the other bags as they squatted in a helpless row, with twine-tied mouths hanging on all sides. It was only after anxious consultation with an account-book that the half sovereign was exchanged for silver; thanks to the clothing-club bag, which looked leaner for the accommodation. In the three-halfpenny bag (which bulged with pence) some silver was further solved-into copper, and the charity bag was handsomely distended before the 12 SATURDAY NIGHT. whole lot was consigned once more to the tabledrawer. Any one accustomed to book-keeping must smile at this bag-keeping of accounts; but the parson's daughter could never bring her mind to keeping the funds apart on paper, and mixing the actual cash. Indeed, she could never have brought her conscience to it. Unless she had taken the tenth for charity from her dress and pocket-money in coin, and put it then and there into the charity bag, this ...

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