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The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island

CHAPTER LIII
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But the first time he tried to do it, he broke the spring, and when it was silent he cared no longer for it, but threw it on one side.

However, as the gold was very glittering, he took it up again, and suspending it from the handkerchief that was wound round his head, it hung over his nose, and formed a striking ornament.

Francis showed him his face in a mirror, which royal amusement made him laugh heartily.

He asked the missionary if it was the invisible and Almighty God who had made all these wonderful things.

Mr.Willis replied, that it was he who gave men the power to make them.


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