 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 pages
...with my 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...what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money ; and they laughed at me so much for my folly' that I cried with vexation ; and the reflection... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Israel Alger (Jun.) - Readers - 1846 - 180 pages
...my -whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bar'gain I had made, told me I had given four times...what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money; and they laugh'ed at me so much for my folly, that I cried with vexation. 3. My reflections... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 pages
...family. Aly hrothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the hargain I had made, told me I had aiven four times as much for it as it was worth. This 'put me in mind what good things I might have hought with the rest ol the money ; and they laughed at me so much for my folly, that I cried with... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesman - 1848 - 312 pages
...the bargain I had made, told me I had given ;our times as much for it as it was worth. This put Tie in mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money ; and they laughed at me so much for my folly, that I cried with vexation; and the reflection... | |
 | John Comly - Readers - 1849 - 234 pages
...with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, hearing of the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times...what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money ; and they laughed at .me so much for my folly, that I cried •yith vexation. My reflections... | |
 | John Stanley (printer.) - Statesmen - 1849 - 178 pages
...but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters ami cousins, understanding the bargain I bad made, told me I had given four times as much for it...what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money ; and they laughed at me so much for my folly that I cried with vexation, and the reflection... | |
 | Mary (aunt, pseud.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...with my 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...what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money ; and they laughed at me so much for my folly, that I cried with vexation ; and the reflection... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...disturbing all the family with its noise. My brothers and sisters, on my telling them the bargain which I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth. This put me in mind how many good things I might have bought with the rest of the money, and they laughed at me so much... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...my 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...my 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...what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money ; and they laughed at me so much for my folly, that I cried with vexation ; and the reflection... | |
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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 I had given four times as much for it as it was worth.... 
