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Ghe Children’s Pritt Story- Book.
house with beautiful ornaments over the
tea windows, there lived a young merchant.
Everywhere in the house there was only
splendid new furniture to be seen, and
all the floors were covered with soft and
beautiful carpets—red, blue, and green
—and with a profusion of woven flowers
strewn over them, so that you might
almost have fancied you were treading
a meadow on a summer’s day, with all the little
buttercups and daisies at your feet.
In a little room in this house there stood
an antique bookcase, of walnut-wood, with small
old-fashioned panes of glass, held together by a
richly-carved framework—and on the shelves were
arrayed several rows of books, faded and worn.
Many of the young merchant’s friends pointed to
the old bookcase, and said : “Why do you keep
such an ugly old piece of lumber?” But he always
answered: “It is an heir-loom of my mother’s, and
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