 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1825 - 324 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...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... | |
 | Agriculture - 1825 - 538 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 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... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 440 pages
...whistle, but disturbing all the APPENDIX. 381 family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times...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... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 422 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...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... | |
 | African Americans - 1826 - 238 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 as much for it, as it was worth. 3. This put me in mind o'f what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money. And they... | |
 | Jesse Torrey (the younger.) - Readers, American - 1830 - 162 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 as much for it, as it was worth. 3. This put me in mind of what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money. And they... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children's poetry - 1831 - 178 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...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 ciied with vexation. 3. My... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers, English - 1831 - 182 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...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. 3. My... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1831 - 180 pages
...whistle, but disturbing all the .family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bar'galn I had made, told me I had given four times as much...mind 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1831 - 314 pages
...disturhing all the family. My hrothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the hargain 1 hnd nmde, told me I had given four times as much for it as it...This put me in mind what good things I might have hought with the rest <if the money ; and they laughed at me so much for my folly, that I cried with... | |
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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. 
