 | D.C. Heath and Company - Readers - 1903 - 362 pages
...not yet returned from the fair, I was wondering what could keep him so long. " Never mind our son," cried my wife; "depend upon it he knows what he is about. I'll warrant we'll never see him sell his hen on a rainy day. I have seen him buy such bargains as would amaze one. I'll tell... | |
 | Readers - 1903 - 362 pages
...not yet returned from the fair, I was wondering what could keep him so long. " Never mind our son," cried my wife ; " depend upon it he knows what he is about. I'll warrant we'll never see him sell his hen on a rainy day. I have seen him buy such bargains as would amaze one. I'll tell... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1903 - 368 pages
...what could keep our son so long at the fair, as it was now almost nightfall. " Never mind our son," cried my wife ; " depend upon it he knows what he is about ; I'll warrant we'll never see him sell his hen on a rainy day. I have seen him buy such bargains as would amaze one. I'll tell... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell - 1904 - 426 pages
...what could keep our son so long at the fair, as it was now almost nightfall. " Never mind our son," cried my wife ; " depend upon it he knows what he is about. I '11 warrant we '11 never see him sell his hen of a rainy day. I have seen him buy such bargains as... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - Wit and humor - 1905 - 320 pages
...what could keep our son so long at the fair, as it was now almost nightfall. " Never mind our son," cried my wife ; " depend upon it, he knows what he is about. I'll warrant we'll never see him sell his hen of a rainy day. I have seen him buy such bargains as would amaze one. I'll tell... | |
 | Readers, American - 1905 - 474 pages
...what could keep our son so long at the fair, as it was now almost nightfall. "Never mind our son," cried my wife ; '• depend upon it he knows what he is about. I'll warrant we'll never see him sell his hen on a rainy day. I have seen him buy such bargains as would amaze one. But, as... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Anthologies - 1910 - 330 pages
...great; but when once one gets in, then, as Moses says, one may go to sleep." ••Never mind our son," cried my wife: "depend upon it, he knows what he is about. I warrant we'll never see him sell his hen of a rainy day. I have seen him buy such bargains as would... | |
 | Emogene Sanford Simons - English language - 1906 - 220 pages
...wonder what could keep our son so long at the fair as it was now almost nightfall never mind our son cried my wife depend upon it he knows what he is about ill warrant well never see him sell his hen on a rainy day i have seen him buy such bargains as would amaze one ill tell you... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1906 - 362 pages
...could keep our son so long at the fair, as it was now almost nightfall. — " Never mind our son," cried my wife, " depend upon it he knows what he is about. I'll warrant we'll never see him sell his hen of a rainy day. I have seen him buy such bargains as would amaze one. I'll tell... | |
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Never mind our son," cried my wife; " depend upon it he knows what he is about. I'll warrant we'll never see him sell his hen of a rainy day. 
