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Title: The heart of oak books
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908
Subjects: Nursery rhymes Fairy tales
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : D.C. Heath & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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master the parson running after the threegirls, he wondered greatly, and said, Hollo! hollo! jourreverence! whither so fast? there is a christening to-day.Then he ran up, and took him by the gown, and in amoment he was fast too. As the five were thus trudgingalong, one behind another, they met two laborers withtheir mattocks, coming from work; and the parson criedout to them to set him free. But scarcely had theytouched him, when they too fell into the ranks, and somade seven, all running after Dummling and his goose. At last they arrived at a city, where reigned a kingwho had an only daughter. The princess was of sothoughtful and serious a turn of mind that no one couldmake her laugh; and the king had proclaimed to all theworld, that whoever could make her laugh should haveher for his wife. When the young man heard this, hewent to her with his goose and all its train; and as soonas she saw the seven all hanging together, and runningabout, treading on each others heels, she could not
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