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The Parent's Assistant, Or, Stories for Children

The Parent's Assistant, Or, Stories for Children

Edgeworth, Maria

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Classic FictionGeneral Fiction

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ISBN10: 1458998967
ISBN13: 9781458998965
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.30 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. 1827 edition. Excerpt: ...nor I should not mind about the dinner, except the mince pies. But Bell has a great many nice things; I don't mean nice eatable things; but nice new playthings given to her always on her birth-day; and every body drinks her health, and she's so happy! 1 But stay, Bosamond, how you jumble things together! Is it every body's drinking her health, that makes her so happy; or the new playthings, or the nice mince pies? I can easily believe, that she is happy whilst she is eating a mince pie, or whilst she is playing; but how does every body's drinking her health at dinner make her happy? Rosamond paused, and then said she did not know. But, added she, the nice new playthings, mother! But why the nice new playthings? Do you like them only because they are Not only--I do not like playthings only because they are new, but Bell does, I believe--for that puts me in mind--Do you know, mother, she had a great drawerfull of old play things that she never used, and she said that they were good for nothing, because they were old; but I thought many of them were good for a great deal more than the new ones.--Now you shall be judge, mamma; I'll tell you all that was in the drawer. Nay, Rosamond, thank you, not just now; I have not time to listen to you. Well, then, mamma, the day after to-morrow I can show you the drawer; I want you to be judge very much, because I am sure I was in the right.--And, mother, added Rosamond, stopping her as she was going out of the room, will you--not now, but when you've time--will you tell me why you never keep my birth-day--why you never make any difference between that day and any other day? And will you, Rosamond--not now, but when you have time to think about it--tell me why I should make any...

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