That poor man certainly deserves it; for, after all, isn't he in his shirt sleeves because he was good enough to buy a book for me?
On this cold day, too! Fathers are indeed good to their children!" As he talked to himself, he thought he heard sounds of pipes and drums coming from a distance: pi-pi-pi, pi-pi-pi.

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.zum, zum, zum, zum.
He stopped to listen.

Those sounds came from a little street that led to a small village along the shore.
"What can that noise be?
What a nuisance that I have to go to school! Otherwise.

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