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The crown of success; or, Four heads to furnish, by A.L.O.E.
The crown of success or Four heads to furnish by ALOE Author:Charlotte Maria Tucker 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: darker thatch and brown glass windows. The first were for Matty and Nelly, the others for Lubin and Dick. " Mine is the prettiest, much the prettiest cottage ... more »!" exclaimed Matty, with a smile of delight ; " it has the brightest thatch, and the whitest wall, and the most elegant shape besides '." "Mine is the biggest!" cried Dick with some pride. Now each of the cottages of Head had two little doors, the funniest that ever were seen ; they were just of the form of ears, and Matty's and Nelly's were almost hidden by the golden thatch above them. The children went in and examined the inside of the dwellings one by one. Each had four little rooms—parlour, bedroom, kitchen, and spare room. But the walls were quite rough and bare; not a scrap of carpet covered the boards ; there were chimneys, it is true, but no grates were to be seen in the empty fireplaces. "Well," cried Dick, as with his companions he returned to the space between the cottages, in which they had left Mr. Learning standing, " I should be mighty sorry to have to live in such an unfurnished house!" " If it remain unfurnished it will be your own fault," replied Mr. Learning, as he drew from his (285) 2 pocket four purses, yellow, red, and pink, and blue. " These are the magic purses of Time," he continued, " and most valuable gifts are they ; each of you shall possess one. Every morning you will find in them a certain number of pieces of 8'ilver and copper money,—men name them hours and minutes. A few you will employ in paying for your lodging and food in that large dwelling hard by, called Needful House, in which you may remain for a while until your cottages are fit to be lived in. Some of your hours and minutes you must spend on every weekday in buying furniture for these little Heads in the town o...« less