 Edinburgh, two gentlemen were standing at the door of an hotel one very cold day, when a little boy, with a poor, thin, blue face, his feet bare, and red with the cold, and with nothing to cover him but a bundle of rags, came and said, ' Please, sir,...  Report of the Examinations Conducted by the Council of Higher Education ... - Page 7by Newfoundland Council of Higher Education - 1914Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Smiles - Conduct of life - 1880 - 460 pages
...direction. " Away off, I believe in Edinburgh, two gentlemen were standing at the door of an hotel one very cold day, when a little boy, with a poor...with nothing to cover him but a bundle of rags, came and said, ' Please, sir, buy some matches.' ' No, I don't want any,' said the gentleman. 'But they're... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Conduct of life - 1880 - 456 pages
...Edinburgh, two gentlemen were standing at the door of an hotel one very cold day, when a little boy, witli a poor thin blue face, his feet bare and red with...with nothing to cover him but a bundle of rags, came and said, ' Please, sir, buy some matches.' ' No, I don't want any,' said the gentleman. 'But they're... | |
 | Eleanor A. Bulley - Great Britain - 1881 - 312 pages
...story ? Yes, please. Not long ago, in Edinburgh, two gentlemen were standing at the door of an hotel one very cold day, when a little boy with a poor,...with nothing to cover him but a bundle of rags, came and said — " Please, sir, buy some matches." " No, don't want any," the gentleman said. " But they... | |
 | Celebrities - 1881 - 426 pages
...STORY OF A RAGGED BOY. AWAY off in Edinburgh, two gentlemen were standing at the door of an hotel, one very cold day, when a little boy, with a poor,...with nothing to cover him but a bundle of rags, came and said — " Please, sir, buy some matches." " No ; I don't want any," said the gentleman. " But... | |
 | Anna L. Beck Möring - American literature - 1882 - 164 pages
...story. He said, — Not long ago, in Edinburgh, two gentlemen were standing at the door of a hotel, one very cold day, when a little boy, with a poor...with nothing to cover him but a bundle of rags, came and said, " Please, sir, buy some matches." " No, don't want any," the gentleman said. " But they are... | |
 | Frances A. Humphrey - Children - 1884 - 204 pages
...will understand this : Not long ago, in Edinburgh, two gentlemen were standing at the door of an hotel one very cold day, when a little boy with a poor thin...with nothing to cover him but a bundle of rags, came and said, " Please, sir, buy some matches." " No, I don't want any," the gentleman said. "But they... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Beatitudes - 1887 - 180 pages
...will understand this. Not long ago, in Edinburgh, two gentlemen were standing at the door of an hotel one very cold day, when a little boy with a poor thin...with nothing to cover him but a bundle of rags, came and said, ' Please, sir, buy some matches.' 'No, I don't want any,' the gentleman said. 'But they are... | |
 | Walter Baxendale - Anecdotes - 1888 - 708 pages
...Edinburgh two gentlemen were standing at the door of a hotel one very cold day, when a little boy, with a thin blue face, his feet bare and red with the cold, and with nothing to cover him but a bundle of rag«, came and said, " Please, sir, buy some matches." " No, don't want any," said the gentleman.... | |
 | Richard Newton - Animals - 1889 - 366 pages
...Abbey, told the following story : Not long ago two gentlemen were standing at the door of an hotel one very cold day, when a little boy, with a poor,...with nothing to cover him but a bundle of rags, came and said, ' Please, sir, buy some matches.'- — ' No ; I don't want any,' the gentleman said. —... | |
 | Eben Harlow Davis - Readers - 1890 - 374 pages
...not long ago, in Edinburgh, two gentlemen were standing at the door of a hotel. A little boy with a thin blue face, his feet bare and red with the cold,...with nothing to cover him but a bundle of rags, came to them and said, " Please, sir, buy some matches ?" ' No, I don't want any," answered one of the gentlemen.... | |
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