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At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece and to avoid expense, she sheared him herself, but used the shears so unskillfully that with the fleece she sheared the flesh.

This room was my late master’s favourite room, and these miniatures are just as they used to be then.

I’ve always heard that Prince Edward Island was the prettiest place in the world, and I used to imagine I was living here, but I never really expected I would.

They were not as big as the grown folk she had always been used to; but neither were they very small.