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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: n. HOW JONAS NETTLEBED COUNTED HIS CHICKENS BEFORE THEY WERB HATCHED. The Old Inn looked unusually cheery. 'Not that it ever looked dull or uncomfortable, but just now it wore a particularly bright and lively aspect. A good fire was blazing on the hearth, roaring up the wide-mouthed chimney, and shining on the black wainscots, on the twisted legs of the black oak table, and on the carved doors of the black oak sideboard. The good fire was needed, for it was bitterly cold without: a black frost of a week's duration. All the ponds and watercourses about Dunmow were covered with ice, and even the Chelmer, which flowed within a hundred yards of the inn, encircling the grey and mossy walls of its once stately gardens, was partially frozen. It was close upon Christmas time, and the season promised to be more seasonable than the winters we now usually experience. Green Yules were rarer in the last century than in the present. It was cold enough in all conscience; and as Jonas Nettlebed brought his snub nose into somewhat too close contact with a frozen pane, he seemed to have scorched it. He was employed at the time, together with Dolly, thefat cook, and Peggy, the pretty chambermaid, in decorating the bay-windows with sprigs of holly and other evergreens. At the same moment, Peggy uttered a cry. In handling the holly rather incautiously, the thorns had run into her fingers and made them bleed. Plague on't ! how it pricks, she cried. Burns you mean, Peggy. Oddsheart ! I declare I thought half my nose had been left sticking to the glass, Jonas said, rubbing the injured feature. And that would be a pity indeed, master, for you haven't got too much to spare, Peggy replied, with affected commiseration, but secret entertainment. My nose is certainly not as ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217951104
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 216
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217951104
  • Publisher Date: 18 Aug 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 322 gr


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