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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 scratched faces and torn clothes, came crawling down. They looked very sheepish as they landed among their comrades. Ever afterward when she saw a soldier Kitty kin would run for life, and hide as far back under the house as she could get, with her eyes shining like two little live coals. JEFFERSON'S TEN RULES Never put off until to-morrow what you can do to-day. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. Never spend your money before you have earned it. Never buy what you don't want because it is cheap. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst, and cold. We seldom repent of having eaten too little. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. How much pain the evils have cost us that have never happened. Take things always by the smooth handle. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred. THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT John G. Saxe It was six men of Indostan, To learning much inclined, Who went to see the elephant, (Though all of them were blind, ) That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The first approached the elephant, And, happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl: God bless me but the elephant Is very like a wall The second, feeling of the tusk, Cried: Ho what have we here, So very round, and smooth, and sharp? To me 'tis mighty clear This wonder of an elephant Is very like a spear The third approached the animal, And, happening to take The squirming trunk within his hands, Thus boldly up and spake: I see, quoth he, the elephant Is very like a snake The fourth reached out his eager hand, And felt about the knee: What most this wondrous beast is like, Is mighty plain, quoth he; '...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217592116 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217592112 |
| Weight | 0.71 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.49 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 214 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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