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J ack was frightened at the old

woman's menaces, and promised to
fulfil her injunctions exactly, and
the fairy thus addressed him: -
"Your father was a rich man, his
disposition remarkably benevolent;
he was very good to the poor, and constantly
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relieving them: he made it a rule never to let a day
pass without doing good to some person.
On one particular day in the week he kept open
house, and invited only those who were reduced and
had lived well. He always presided himself, and did
all in his power to render his guests comfortable: the
rich and ____
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