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...A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...reatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...children after they can walk lest they should walk into mis- chief, though Arab boys make their sisters carry them, as our own spoiled children someti... ...r- rors. Yet when that same lady discovered that I had found a copy of The Arabian Nights and was devouring it with avid- ity, she was horrified, and ... ...s deep as Dr. Watts and in fact fathoms deeper. 95 Shaw Moral Instruction Leagues AND NOW THE VOICES of our Moral Instruction Leagues will be lifted,... ... are governed. You may pile Bills of Right and Habeas Corpus Acts on Great Charters; promulgate Ameri- can Constitutions; burn the chateaux and guillo...

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...THE DAY’S WORK THE DAY’S WORK THE DAY’S WORK by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ...RK by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ics Series Publication The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...gineer, who would pat him on his back, and weep over him, and call him his Arab steed. (The boys in the shops where he was built used to read wonderfu... ...i- neer was kneeling down among his drivers, but he did not call 007 his “Arab steed,” nor cry over him, as the engineers did in the newspapers. He j... ...e week-end, when I was at him for more paint, for we’ d heard the Kite was chartered Liverpool-side. ‘Bide whaur ye’re put,’ said the Blind Deevil. ‘M... ...board the Kite, mon, as soon as ye can. I’ve clean forgot there’s a Baltic charter yammerin’ for you at Lon- don. That’ll be your last voyage, I’m thi... ...rtment now speeding Plymouthward. Yet I was, in spirit at least, a million leagues removed from that unhappy man of another nationality, who had chose...

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