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Jack and Jill

Creator: Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
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"Don't talk about sleds, for mercy's sake! I never want to see another, and you wouldn't, either, if you had to lie with a flat-iron tied to your ankle, as I do," said Jack, with a kick of the well leg and an ireful glance at the weight attached to the other that it might not contract while healing. "Well, I think plasters, and liniment, and rubbing, as bad as flat-irons any day. I don't believe you have ached half so much as I have, though it sounds worse to break legs than to sprain your back," protested Jill, eager to prove herself the greater sufferer, as invalids are apt to be. "I guess you wouldn't think so if you'd been pulled round as I was when they set my leg. Caesar, how it did hurt!" and Jack squirmed at the recollection of it. "You didn't faint away as I did when the doctor was finding out if my _vertebrums_ were hurt, so now!" cried Jill, bound to carry her point, though not at all clear what vertebrae were. "Pooh! Girls always faint. Men are braver, and I didn't faint a bit in spite of all that horrid agony." "You howled; Frank told me so. Doctor said _I_ was a brave girl, so you needn't brag, for you'll have to go on a crutch for a while. I
The Bible, King James version, Book 42: Luke

Book 42 Luke 42:001:001 Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, 42:001:002 Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; 42:001:003 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, 42:001:004 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed. 42:001:005 THERE was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. 42:001:006 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the
know that." "You may have to use two of them for years, may be. I heard the doctor tell my mother so. I shall be up and about long before you will. Now then!" Both children were getting excited, for the various pleasures of the day had been rather too much for them, and there is no knowing but they would have added the sad surprise of a quarrel to the pleasant ones of the day, if a cheerful whistle had not been heard, as Ralph came in to light the candles and give the last artistic touches to the room. "Well, young folks, how goes it? Had a merry time so far?" he asked, as he fixed the steps and ran up with a lighted match in his hand. "Very nice, thank you," answered a prim little voice from the dusk below, for only the glow of the fire filled the room just then. Jack said nothing, and two red sulky faces were hidden in the dark, watching candle after candle sputter, brighten, and twinkle, till the trembling shadows began to flit away like imps afraid of the light. "Now he will see my face, and I know it is cross," thought Jill, as Ralph went round the last circle, leaving another line of sparks