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The Magician's Show Box, and Other Stories

By Lydia Maria Child

2020-05-26 05:32:30

Brief Extract: There was once a boy, named Gaspar, whose uncle made voyages to China, and brought him home chessmen, queer toys, porcelain vases, embroidered skullcaps, and all kinds of fine things. He gave him such grand descriptions of foreign coun ... Read more
Brief Extract: There was once a boy, named Gaspar, whose uncle made voyages to China, and brought him home chessmen, queer toys, porcelain vases, embroidered skullcaps, and all kinds of fine things. He gave him such grand descriptions of foreign countries and costumes, that Gaspar was not at all satisfied to live in a small village, where the people dressed in the most commonplace way. At school he was always covering his slate with pictures of Turks wearing turbans as large as small mosques, or Chinese with queues several yards long, and shoes that turned up to their knees. Then he read every story he could find of all possible and impossible adventures and longed for nothing so much as to go forth, like Napoleon or Alexander, and make mincemeat of the whole world. Less

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File size128.17 KB
Print pages140
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1374914667
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Lydia Maria Child
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Lydia Maria Francis Child (born Lydia Maria Francis) (February 11, 1802 – October 20, 1880), was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journal...

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