. St. Nicholas [serial]. sir, to public speaking,—ahem, sir!—I must beg leave to say, sir—toyour attention to the fact that those windows are botched, sir !look at those doors ! They are too low—no, they are too high,stone work is intensely,—I may say,—excessively and intol-sir ! Then, considering the means, sir, you have em-the construction and erection of this building, sir,—and highly improper, and extraordinary behavior of I mean to do for that old hunks, Paul! a At the same moment, a wheelbarrow, whichlifted its feet and ran straight at the fat oldhis legs, he dropped into it, with his le
. St. Nicholas [serial]. sir, to public speaking,—ahem, sir!—I must beg leave to say, sir—toyour attention to the fact that those windows are botched, sir !look at those doors ! They are too low—no, they are too high,stone work is intensely,—I may say,—excessively and intol-sir ! Then, considering the means, sir, you have em-the construction and erection of this building, sir,—and highly improper, and extraordinary behavior of I mean to do for that old hunks, Paul! a At the same moment, a wheelbarrow, whichlifted its feet and ran straight at the fat oldhis legs, he dropped into it, with his legsthe wheelbarrow ran down the ladderfollowed, and soon were running afterthrough the streets of the townthe magical wheelbarrow drew. £1 call And sir ! The erably bad, ployed, sir, in the unbecoming, that trowel, sir tinkling voice said. .- - had been standing near, burgomaster. It struck flying into the air, and then with the burgomaster. The rest puffing and red in the face, lawyers looking wise as theywiser and flourishing theirrich by selling out at cost,limping on sound legs,hind came people ineven the rats, werediers, with a bandrumbling andbrought up the The wheelit stoppedsudden- toward the mountains. As it ran,. everybody, and they ran after it,—thestrutted to court, the doctors lookinggold-headed canes, the merchants, fat andthe ladies rustling their finery, the beggars—all followed the magical wheelbarrow. Be-carriages and on horseback. Dogs and cats, andgalloping on like the rest; and a company of sol-of music, broke ranks and followed, with the drumsthe trumpets blowing ; and a lonely tortoise slowlyrear. Never was such a sight seen by human eyes before !barrow ran on and the crowd ran after it unt
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