"There, there, there!" said Miss Wren, "for goodness' sake stop, giant, or I shall be swallowed up alive before I know it"—Book 4, chap. xvi.

Riderhood went over into the smooth pit backwards, and Bradley Headstone upon him—Book 4, chap. xv.


[CHRISTMAS STORIES
FROM "HOUSEHOLD WORDS"
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TWENTY-THREE ILLUSTRATIONS
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