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In California it is always May , and one may look from the window Beauty of Glaze wood or " Hester " rose . or doorway any day in the whole year and revel in a sea of bloom . If not one blossom , it will be another , for there is never ...
In California it is always May , and one may look from the window Beauty of Glaze wood or " Hester " rose . or doorway any day in the whole year and revel in a sea of bloom . If not one blossom , it will be another , for there is never ...
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The butcher , the baker , and the candlestick maker have to look to their work , lest their fair competitors crowd them out of the field . This order of things is so marked in Munich , the capital of Bavaria , that women are found doing ...
The butcher , the baker , and the candlestick maker have to look to their work , lest their fair competitors crowd them out of the field . This order of things is so marked in Munich , the capital of Bavaria , that women are found doing ...
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She must struggle on , raise her family on the equivalent of $ 17 a month , and when age compels her to lay aside . the switching - rod , she must look to her children for support . No wonder that when this poor woman hears the magic ...
She must struggle on , raise her family on the equivalent of $ 17 a month , and when age compels her to lay aside . the switching - rod , she must look to her children for support . No wonder that when this poor woman hears the magic ...
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How they look forward to this one hour of recreation ! Then they can meet around a clothless table in a beer garden and exchange spicy bits of gossip in street sweeping circles . More sausage and beer are in order , and during this ...
How they look forward to this one hour of recreation ! Then they can meet around a clothless table in a beer garden and exchange spicy bits of gossip in street sweeping circles . More sausage and beer are in order , and during this ...
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A crust of bread and a liter of beer make up the evening meal , while at her feet play the little ones who at times pause in their mad frolic to look up into a face on which shines a deep mother - love . We have our sweat - shops and ...
A crust of bread and a liter of beer make up the evening meal , while at her feet play the little ones who at times pause in their mad frolic to look up into a face on which shines a deep mother - love . We have our sweat - shops and ...
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