Dolly and I; A Story for Little Folks
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By Oliver Optic 27 Aug, 2019
Do you know what envy means? I hope you have never felt it, for it is a very wicked feeling. It is being sorry when another has any good thing. Perhaps you will know better what the word means when you have read my story, and I hope it will help ... Read more
Do you know what envy means? I hope you have never felt it, for it is a very wicked feeling. It is being sorry when another has any good thing. Perhaps you will know better what the word means when you have read my story, and I hope it will help you to keep the feeling away from your own heart. Not far from Mr. Lee's house, in Riverdale, lived a man by the name of Green. He was the agent of one of the factories in the village. Mr. Green had two little girls and three sons. The boys have nothing to do with my story, and for that reason, I shall not say a great deal about them. Katy, Mr. Green's older daughter, was ten years old. She was a pretty good girl, but she did not like to have others get good things when she did not have any herself. If any person gave one of her brothers an apple or an orange, she seemed to think she ought to have it. Less
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William Taylor Adams (July 30, 1822 – March 27, 1897), pseudonym Oliver Optic, was a noted academic, author, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Adams was born in Medway, Mas...
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