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The Magician's Show Box

The Magician's Show Box

Tappan, Caroline Sturgis

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1151717592
ISBN13: 9781151717597
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.21 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
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. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... walk in the garden and gather pinks. You can go round the garden and look at the fountains, or into the grove, but not outside the wall, or you will have Miss Magin tagging after you, to see that nothing happens to you. After dinner, you will have to practise and sew, and in the evening play backgammon with mother, or talk to the visitors who come in. Lisa. But I cannot do all these things; I don't know how. Edith. Well, you will not have to. They will soon find out you are a gypsy girl, and cannot be tamed down into a young lady. But you must not let them find it out to-night, or they will immediately send you after me. Your voice is so much like mine they will not notice that, and you must stay in the shadow of the evergreens, and not venture into the moonlight. When they talk to you, you must not say much, but sing gypsy songs, always changing the word gypsy for fairy; and in a little while you can steal quietly off to bed. Lisa. But how shall I know where to got Edith. I sleep now with my cousin Fanny. She has a blue dress and silver wings; you must whisper to her and ask her to go with you, and then you can tell her the secret. She will not tell any one. Perhaps you had better leave the wreath here, and the wings, for many of the fairies have none, and they will not think it is I, without them. You cannot get on my shoes--can you? Lisa. I walk so much barefooted. What pretty gold shoes they are! I wish I could wear them. Edith. No, you will have to leave them here. Lay them on this flower bed with the wings. They look as if they might belong to little Amy--perhaps she will come for them to-night. Lisa. You seem so strange in my dress! Edith. I like to have it on. But it will hurt me to go barefooted. Never mind--I wish to try how...

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