. St. Nicholas [serial]. littlesides and danced up and down for delight. And the bear pawing at his own teeth ! Andgnawing at his paws ! Oh, my ! And he rolledover, and the leaves stuck fast, and he began tolook as big as an elephant. And so the lambpitied him and said : Come, I 11 take you back to where Ifound you. And so he went back down thehill, and the poor bear hobbled and rolled onafter. But pretty soon they met the sheep. Then »9°4-] FOUR LITTLE GIRLS AND THEIR FOUR LITTLE STORIES. 523 a big ram with great bent horns bowed to thebear. And the bear thought it was all , I tell y
. St. Nicholas [serial]. littlesides and danced up and down for delight. And the bear pawing at his own teeth ! Andgnawing at his paws ! Oh, my ! And he rolledover, and the leaves stuck fast, and he began tolook as big as an elephant. And so the lambpitied him and said : Come, I 11 take you back to where Ifound you. And so he went back down thehill, and the poor bear hobbled and rolled onafter. But pretty soon they met the sheep. Then »9°4-] FOUR LITTLE GIRLS AND THEIR FOUR LITTLE STORIES. 523 a big ram with great bent horns bowed to thebear. And the bear thought it was all , I tell you, whenever a ram bows to you,look out! Well, the rams all bowed to thatbear, and then they began to come. Jump!Bump ! Thump ! And over that bear went, country, and was very nearly crying with fright,she meekly held her head to one side and man-aged to go on. Once upon a time, in a veryforeign country, there lived in a great coal-minea man with a leather nose. Now this man wasa Norwegian, and he had a name that was so. and you should have seen that little lamb laugh! heels over head, till he rolled into the sea andwas turned into a great big island that was allsurrounded by water. Dh, my! Who ever heard a lamb talk!Now / dont blieve that tother story, too!said Pudge. Pudgey, Pudgey ! But now Dimples; andthen little Pudge. Once upon a time in a foreign country a—very, very foreign country, and here littleDimples stopped, rolled up her dimpled handsin her coarse apron as if they had been cocoonsin silk, and began it all over again. She didthis two or three times in her great embarrass-ment, and at last, after assuring us over andover again that it was in a very, very foreign long that it took a man a day and a half topronounce it, and — Now, Dimples! Oh, Dimples! Well, Dot, I 11 pronounce it if you like. Itmay not take a day and a half, but it will takesome time. Skip the name, then, and hurry up, forPudge is very sleepy. Well, then, they called him Old LeatherNose. And wh
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