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Jack and Jill

CHAPTER XV
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As when he gave away his best coat to a beggar boy, instead of the old one which he intended to give." "I say, that isn't fair, mother! Neither of them was new, and the boy needed the best more than I did, and I wore the old one all winter, didn't I ?" asked Jack, who had rather exulted over Frank, and was now taken down himself.
"Yes, you did, my dear; and it was not an easy thing for my dandiprat to do.

Now listen, and I'll tell you how they both learned to be wiser.

The elder prince soon found that the big dragons were too much for him, and set about training his own little one, who now and then ran away with him.

Its name was Will, a good servant, but a bad master; so he learned to control it, and in time this gave him great power over himself, and fitted him to be a king over others." "Thank you, mother; I'll remember my part of the moral.

Now give Jack his," said Frank, who liked the dragon episode, as he had been wrestling with his own of late, and found it hard to manage.
"He had a fine example before him in a friend, and he followed it more reasonably till he grew able to use wisely one of the best and noblest gifts of God--benevolence." "Now tell about the girl.


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