. The house on the hill; or, Stories for Charlie and Alice . NCE there was a man who lived in an old,old house ; but it was a very good house, andeverything was pleasant around it, and thisman had many things to make him he was not happy. He was always grum-bling, grumbling. He used to sit down every night bythe fire in the kitchen, and fret, and scold, and grumble,and say, What a miserable man I am. Now, there was an old Cricket lived in a corner ofthe big fire-place. He had lived there a great manyyears, and brought up a large family of children, andtaught them all to be merry and


. The house on the hill; or, Stories for Charlie and Alice . NCE there was a man who lived in an old,old house ; but it was a very good house, andeverything was pleasant around it, and thisman had many things to make him he was not happy. He was always grum-bling, grumbling. He used to sit down every night bythe fire in the kitchen, and fret, and scold, and grumble,and say, What a miserable man I am. Now, there was an old Cricket lived in a corner ofthe big fire-place. He had lived there a great manyyears, and brought up a large family of children, andtaught them all to be merry and good. And though he 44.


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