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THE TINDER-BOX.

 

 

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; Jaghene! WM}
— SS

away all the copper money he had, and filled his pockets and his
knapsack with silver only. Then he went into the third chamber.
Oh, but that was horrid! The dog there really had eyes as Vig
as towers, and they turned round and round in his head like
wheels.

“Good evening!” said the soldier; and he touched his cap,
for he had never seen such a dog as that before. When he had
looked at him a little more closely, he thought, “ That will do,”
and lifted him down to the floor,and opened the chest. Mercy!
what a quantity of gold was there! He could buy with it the
whole town, and the sugar sucking-pigs of the cake woman, and