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Page 4
... thought it ver - y nice . That man holds the plough in the fur ' - row , and the hors ' - es draw it a - long after them . There is a raven fly ' - ing a - cross ' the field : he is look ' - ing for food . When the ground is frozen hard ...
... thought it ver - y nice . That man holds the plough in the fur ' - row , and the hors ' - es draw it a - long after them . There is a raven fly ' - ing a - cross ' the field : he is look ' - ing for food . When the ground is frozen hard ...
Page 6
... sun set , which he thought the fi ' - nest sight in the world . A gen ' - tle - man one day passed by , as Fran ' - cis was en - joy ' - ing his eve ' - ning treat , and was so struck 6 fallen out, and that good old wom'-...
... sun set , which he thought the fi ' - nest sight in the world . A gen ' - tle - man one day passed by , as Fran ' - cis was en - joy ' - ing his eve ' - ning treat , and was so struck 6 fallen out, and that good old wom'-...
Page 11
... thought , could not ; and it would be a great deal bet ' - ter , she said to her- self ' , to have pret ' - ty young birds in her hand that might be touched with - out ' harm , and would in time sing to her , than the gay ' - est but ...
... thought , could not ; and it would be a great deal bet ' - ter , she said to her- self ' , to have pret ' - ty young birds in her hand that might be touched with - out ' harm , and would in time sing to her , than the gay ' - est but ...
Page 12
... thought , per - haps ' the old bird has for - got them by this time ; but it was no such thing , for she was fly ' - ing back ' - wards and for'- wards be - fore the win ' - dow where the cage stood , and would have come quite near had ...
... thought , per - haps ' the old bird has for - got them by this time ; but it was no such thing , for she was fly ' - ing back ' - wards and for'- wards be - fore the win ' - dow where the cage stood , and would have come quite near had ...
Page 13
... thought she would take them out , and so she did , and they were all dead . When she saw this she cried , and found she had been ver ' - y cru ' - el , and said she would nev - er take poor lit ' - tle birds a - gain ' from their moth ...
... thought she would take them out , and so she did , and they were all dead . When she saw this she cried , and found she had been ver ' - y cru ' - el , and said she would nev - er take poor lit ' - tle birds a - gain ' from their moth ...
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Page 163 - But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, "We will not have this man to reign over us.
Page 164 - And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading.
Page 159 - Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him ; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me.
Page 160 - So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
Page 134 - And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.
Page 143 - Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck ; and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had ; and they cried before him, Bow the knee : and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Page 146 - Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man, in the land of Canaan ; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
Page 158 - We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
Page 154 - And they set on for him by himself, and for. them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves : because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews ; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians. And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birth-right, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another. And he took and sent messes unto them from before him : but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs.
Page 142 - And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.