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202 GATHEKINGS FOR GIBLS,
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XXXII.—GATHERINGS FOR GIRLS.
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Heaps and heaps of shining* gold pieces ...
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202 Gathekings For Gibls,
202 GATHEKINGS FOR GIBLS _,
Xxxii.—Gatherings For Girls.
XXXII . —GATHERINGS FOR GIRLS . THE MISER AND HIS MONEY .
Heaps And Heaps Of Shining* Gold Pieces ...
Heaps and heaps of shining * gold pieces ! . . and And Oh how ! numbers how they tired hoped of the dirty the pieces canvass miser of money bags going . were to of set those them dar free k bags for _,,
he No had ; emptied he was onl them y going all out to upon count the them table . to see if they were ,
right , and then he would put them into the bags again . " This is a very useless life / ' said the pieces of mone the y .
and The had pieces wandered of money hither had and been thither sca , ttered and been over used country for all , tof good and badtill some of them had wn
sors purposes , , gro and quite worn were and so thin old with that the they har fel d t life ver they lad had when been they leadin heard g * _,,
that some the miser had offered them a home y , for they were getting
tired " But of so we many did ups not and want down it to s , and last reall for y ever needed " said a littl the e g rest old .
pieces " And . must we always stay here ? " groaned , th ; and they
but pushed their against efforts each were oth vain er , and for the tried bags to burst were op strong en ey the , and bag the s ; them
who to m So is no thoug er chuckled had purpose h the tied again ; p t ieces the hem and noise of up money again very they t as s g made t ht rugg he , listened and led onl put y and p to leased seals st them rugg upon led . the , miser it was , . _,
There "We cannot was quite stan a d mutiny this , " said in the the canvass pieces bags of m . oney .
am soverei " not But gn able how ; " to I are carry we forth t to hel into Q p ueen ourselves the ' s portrait world ? " to said in shew my a very bosom young devotion , and half yet to
her servants . It of is other well go enoug monarchs h for and you have old spent ones who your my have youth _been in their the
servicebut as far as I am , concerned I think mine is a very hard fate , "
an " almost Pooh . , pooh obliterated , " answered likeness a very of King old soverei Georg gn e , the who Third possessed , " I
am worth twice as much as you are , and there is not a young lady in the land but would prefer me , old and ugly at as the I am .
Besidesit is all the harder to have worn oneself out post of " duty An , and exemp have tion no from reward labour in one and ' s old a quie age t . ' home , " suggested
indi a facetiou "A gnantl dark s y guinea . and g . loomy prison , " replied the old sovereign _,,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 202, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/58/
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