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Indeed, the frost had such an effect upon all their appetites, that they felt not unlike that celebrated gentleman of whom it is told that "He ate a cow, and ate a calf, He ate an ox, and ate a half; He ate a church, he ate the steeple, He ate the priest, and all the people, And said he hadn't had enough then." Digitized by Google Brownie ofi the Ice. 1 1 1 " We're so hungry, so very hungry ! Couldn't you go back again and fetch us some dinner?" cried they, entreatingly. " Not I, indeed. You ma...y go back to dinner your- selves. You shall, indeed, for I want my dinner too. Two hours is plenty long enough to stop on the ice." " It isn't two hours — ^it's only one." " Well, one will do better than more. You're all right now — and you might soon tumble in, or break your legs on the slide. So come away home." It wasn't kind of Gardener, and I don't wonder the children felt it hard ; indeed, the eldest boy re- sisted stoutly. " Mother said we might stop all day, and we will stop all day.
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