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gone fishing, a school always
closed for vacations; and the
father was in consequence the
most unhappy and miserable man
in the world.
Now it happened one day that he
was going to a fair; so he asked his
daughter, who was named Betta,
what she would like him to bring
her on his return. And she said,
“Daddy, if you love me, bring me
half a hundredweight of Palermo
sugar, and half a hundredweight of
ambrosine almonds, with four to six
bottles of scented water, and a little
musk and amber, bring me also forty
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