 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1920 - 282 pàgines
...whistle but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth. . . . The reflection gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure. [BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.] 1... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1920 - 424 pàgines
...whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much 5 for it as it was worth ; put me in mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of the... | |
 | Charles Madison Curry, Erle Elsworth Clippinger - 1921 - 718 pàgines
...whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth; put me in mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money; and laughed at me so... | |
 | Charles Madison Curry, Erle Elsworth Clippinger - 1921 - 720 pàgines
...as it was worth; put me in mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money; and laughed at me so much for my folly, that I cried with vexation; and the reflection gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure. This, however, was afterward... | |
 | Mary Fontaine Laidley - 1922 - 410 pàgines
...whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth; put me in mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money; and laughed at me so... | |
 | Arthur L. Murray, E. P. Wiles - 1922 - 500 pàgines
...whistle but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth; put me in mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money; and laughed at me so... | |
 | Carolyn Wells - 1923 - 804 pàgines
...whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth; put me in mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money, and laughed at me so... | |
 | Calvin Noyes Kendall - 1921 - 344 pàgines
...whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth; put me in mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money; and laughed at me so... | |
 | Howard Copeland Hill, Rollo La Verne Lyman - 1924 - 560 pàgines
...whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for the whistle as it was worth; put me in mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of the... | |
 | Rollo La Verne Lyman, Howard Copeland Hill - 1925 - 736 pàgines
...had made, told me I had given four times as much for the whistle as it was worth; put me in mind of what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money; and laughed at me so much for my folly that I cried with vexation. The reflection gave me more chagrin... | |
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I voluntarily offered him all my money for one. I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters; and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me... 
