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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. When Miss Rosedew and her niece came in to get ready for dinner, Amy cried out suddenly, Oh, only look at the roses, aunt; how they have opened to-day What delicious Louise Odier, and just look at General Jacqueminot and I do declare Jules Margottin is finer than he was at Midsummer. I must cut a few, for I know quite well there will come a great frost if I don't, and then where will all my Iqyes be ? Amy's prediction about the weather was as random a guess as we -may find in great authorities, who are never right, although they give the winds sixteen points of the thirty-two to shuffle in. But it so turned out that the girl was right?a point of the compass never hit till a day too late by our weather-clerks. That very same night such a frost set in as had no been known in October for very nearly a century. It lasted nine nights and eight days; twice chapter{{Section 4s the mercury fell more than half way from the freezing point to zero, and the grass was crisp in the shade all day, though the high sun wiped off the whiteness at noon wherever he found the way to it. Boys rejoiced, and went mitching, to slide on the pools of the open.itazery: no boys since the time of their great-grandfathers had done the heel-tap in October. But the birds did not appreciate it. What in the world did it mean ? Why, there were the hips not ripe yet, and the holly- berries come to no colour, and half the blackberries still too acid, and, lo it was freezing hard enough to make a worm cold for the stomach, even if you could get him Surely there was some stupid mistake of two months in the piper's almanac. All they could say was that, if it were so, those impudent free-and-easy birds who came sponging on them in the winter ? and too stuck up, forsooth to live with...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217195225 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217195229 |
| Weight | 0.56 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 166 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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