False Stories CorrectedSamuel Wood & Sons, no. 261, Pearl-Street and Samuel S. Wood & Company, no. 212 Market-St., Baltimore, 1822 - African Americans - 41 pages |
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... That Ghost and all pass'd through . Loud fell the gate against the post ! Her heart - strings like to crack ; For much she fear'd the grisly Ghost , Would leap upon her back . Still on , pat , pât , the Goblin went. 7.
... That Ghost and all pass'd through . Loud fell the gate against the post ! Her heart - strings like to crack ; For much she fear'd the grisly Ghost , Would leap upon her back . Still on , pat , pât , the Goblin went. 7.
Page 8
... Goblin he , no imp ofsin ; No crimes had ever known . They took the shaggy stranger in , And rear'd him as their own . His little hoofs would rattle round , Upon the cottage floor : The Matron learned to love the sound , That frightened 8.
... Goblin he , no imp ofsin ; No crimes had ever known . They took the shaggy stranger in , And rear'd him as their own . His little hoofs would rattle round , Upon the cottage floor : The Matron learned to love the sound , That frightened 8.
Page 9
... Goblin tale , Perhaps was just as true . AMONG the baneful effects of Deglected or improper education , may be classed the ignorance of dif ferent parts of the earth , and that illiberality of. The Matron learned to love the sound, ...
... Goblin tale , Perhaps was just as true . AMONG the baneful effects of Deglected or improper education , may be classed the ignorance of dif ferent parts of the earth , and that illiberality of. The Matron learned to love the sound, ...
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