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Page 34
... poor house , several miles from our village . She used to come there occasionally and in her way proclaim her woes in the street . She wore always a very short skirt and a short gown , which we should call now a sack , and she was bare ...
... poor house , several miles from our village . She used to come there occasionally and in her way proclaim her woes in the street . She wore always a very short skirt and a short gown , which we should call now a sack , and she was bare ...
Page 152
... poor creatures suffered accordingly . " My master whipped at this time by far the most cruelly . He would require the poor slave to confess the truth , and then to deny it , and then back again , and so on , beating him from truth to ...
... poor creatures suffered accordingly . " My master whipped at this time by far the most cruelly . He would require the poor slave to confess the truth , and then to deny it , and then back again , and so on , beating him from truth to ...
Page 160
... poor brothers begged me to go out of the woods in the day time , and get some fire in order to bake us some bread . I went to a house , got some and returned to the woods . We made a fire in the hollow stump of a tree , mixed our meal ...
... poor brothers begged me to go out of the woods in the day time , and get some fire in order to bake us some bread . I went to a house , got some and returned to the woods . We made a fire in the hollow stump of a tree , mixed our meal ...
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