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Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York. : University Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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few friends, for she was sensitiveand shy, and felt keenly the difference betweenherself and other children. Dont any of the neighboring children comeand play with you? she was asked one day. Jenny looked at her questioner with scorn inher eyes. Dont talk of children, she said, I cant bearthem. I know their tricks and their manners.Always running about (alas! poor Jenny, whocould never run) and screeching, always playingand fighting, always skip, skip, skipping on thepavement, and chalking it for their games. Everso often calling names in through a persons key-hole, and imitating a persons back and legs.Oh ! I know their tricks and their manners, andI 11 tell you what I d do to punish them. I dput them in a great big vault and blow in pepperthrough the keyhole to make them sneeze. Having given vent to this terrible threat, Jennyshook her fist defiantly. Any one who really knew Jenny, knew her fora soft-hearted, hard-working little woman ofabout thirteen years of age, who would not for
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THE MARCHIONESS PLAYING CRIBBAGE WITH HERSELF. MASTER HARRY AND COBBS. JENNY WREN AND OLD RIAH. 184 CUM.I) CHARACTKRS FROM DICKKNS 185 worlds have harmed the thoughtless children whoteased her so. Still she did not care for their company,preferring grown-ups For her companions, and even among these she had but two really goodfriends: one, Lizzie Hexam, a poor girl wholodged with Jenny and her father, and the other,8 very old man, a Jew, who was called Mr. Riah.For alas! Jennys own father could neither becalled her friend nor his own. All day longJenny slaved away with her nimble fingers thatshe might keep the poor little home together, andthe worthless old man squandered her earningsas well as his own. My bad child, Jenny calledhim sorrowfully, and in spite of all his failings,and although she scolded him roundly, she lovedhim and clung to him with all the warmth of herbig loving heart. One day, the person of the house, dolls dress-maker and maker of pincushions and pen-wipers,* sat i

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