Little Classics, Volume 5Rossiter Johnson Houghton, Mifflin, 1874 - Literature |
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... tailor than little Neal Malone . Though but four feet four in height , he paced the earth with the courage and confidence of a giant ; nay , one would have imagined that he walked as if he feared the world itself was about to give way ...
... tailor than little Neal Malone . Though but four feet four in height , he paced the earth with the courage and confidence of a giant ; nay , one would have imagined that he walked as if he feared the world itself was about to give way ...
Page 189
... tailoring business , he would have exhibited so much of the hero as Neal Malone . Neal was descended from a fighting family , who had signalized themselves in as many battles as ever any single hero of antiquity fought . His father ...
... tailoring business , he would have exhibited so much of the hero as Neal Malone . Neal was descended from a fighting family , who had signalized themselves in as many battles as ever any single hero of antiquity fought . His father ...
Page 190
... tailor . On the contrary , every one of his friends — or , in other words , every man in the parish - was ready to support him . He was clapped on the back until his bones were nearly dislocated in his body , and his hand shaken until ...
... tailor . On the contrary , every one of his friends — or , in other words , every man in the parish - was ready to support him . He was clapped on the back until his bones were nearly dislocated in his body , and his hand shaken until ...
Page 191
... tailor . Many a dolorous complaint did Neal make upon the misfortune of having none to wish him ill ; and what rendered this hardship doubly oppressive , was the un- lucky fact that no exertions of his , however offensive , could ...
... tailor . Many a dolorous complaint did Neal make upon the misfortune of having none to wish him ill ; and what rendered this hardship doubly oppressive , was the un- lucky fact that no exertions of his , however offensive , could ...
Page 195
... tailor had none , and that was because he had not an enemy . No man in friend- ship with the world ever has calves ... tailors NEAL MALONE . 195.
... tailor had none , and that was because he had not an enemy . No man in friend- ship with the world ever has calves ... tailors NEAL MALONE . 195.
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asked began bless Bo-bo Bob Cratchit boots called candle Christmas day Christmas eve cried crust Dan Harroway dark dear door exclaimed eyes face father fellow felt fire Gadshill-in-the-Fields Geoffrey Gunn Ghost girl hand happy Harroway head hear heard heart Inmate Jacob Marley Jerry Rouse Jerry's Kenmare knees knew Lafarge laughed live looked Marley marriage master Mercy merry Christmas mind misery Miss Moriarty morning Nance Nash Navity Neal Malone Neal's never night O'Connor passed Pickersgill plase your honor poor round towers schoolmaster Scrooge Scrooge's nephew seemed shake singin Smilish Spirit stairs stood story sure sure as fate tailor tell there's thing thought Tibbot O'Leary Tiny Tiny Tim told Tom Nash took total depravity turned Uncle Scrooge Varuna walked wife woman word young Cratchits
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Page 7 - MARLEY was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.
Page 91 - See him in the dish, his second cradle, how meek he lieth ! — wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood ? Ten to one he would have proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable animal — wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation — from these sins he is happily snatched away — lt Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care...
Page 35 - There was nothing of high mark in this. They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being waterproof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawnbrokers.
Page 9 - ... not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will...
Page 33 - I wish I had him here. I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and I hope he'd have a good appetite for it.
Page 32 - A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastry cook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that!
Page 32 - Oh, a wonderful pudding ! Bob Cratchit said, and calmly too, that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs. Cratchit since their marriage.
Page 87 - You graceless whelp, what have you got there devouring ? Is it not enough that you have burnt me down three houses with your dog's tricks, and be hanged to you ! but you must be eating fire, and I know not what ? What have you got there, I say F " " O father, the pig, the pig ! do come and taste how nice the burnt pig eats.
Page 28 - And now two smaller Cratchits, boy and girl, came tearing in, screaming that outside the baker's they had smelt the goose, and known it for their own ; and, basking in luxurious thoughts of sage and onion, these young Cratchits danced about the table, and exalted Master Peter Cratchit to the skies', while he (not proud, although his...
Page 37 - After a while they played at forfeits; for it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.