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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: with seeing these experiments, and she was very glad that she had cured herself of the habit of losing her needles; and she said, Mother, I am glad 1 chose the red leather housewife, that has been so useful to me, instead of the stone plum, which would have been of no use to me. THE INJURED ASS. Are you very busy, mamma ? said Rosamond?'' Could you be so good as to look at your watch, once more, and tell me what o'clock it is?only once more, mamma? My dear Rosamond, 1 have looked at my vatch for you four times within this hour? llis now exactly twelve o'clock. Only twelve, mamma Why. I thought the hour-glass must have been wrong; it seems a great deal more than an hour since 1 turned it, and since you told me it was exactly eleven o'clock?It has been a very long, long hour, mamma?Don't you think ?o, Laura? No, indeed, said Laura, looking up from what she was doing; I thought it was a very short hour; ? I was quite surprised, when you said, mamma, that it was twelve o'clock. Ah, that is only because you were so busy drawing; I assure you, Laura, that I, who have been watching the sand running all the time, must know best; it has been the longest hour I ever remember. The hour in itself has been the same to you and to Laura, said her mother: how comesit, that one has thought it long and the other short? I have been waiting and wishing all the time, mamma, that it was one o'clock, that I might go to my brothers and see the soap bubbles they promised to show me. Papa said, that I must not knock at his door till the clock strikes one. Oh, I've another long hour to wait, said Rosamond, stretching herself and gaping; another whole long hour, mamma. ' 'Why should itbe a longhour, Rosamond? ?Whether it shall seem long or short to you ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217201636 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217201636 |
| Weight | 0.42 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 120 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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