peddler-man

Updated: May 16, 2025

Now do go, there's a lamb, and ask your ma if I mayn't come in." Mrs. Sharpe dropped her basket in a pet and stalked back to the house. "It's a peddler-man," she said, crossly, "a-wanting to come in. I told him he couldn't, and it's of no use; and the best thing you can do is to set the dogs on him." "No, no!" cried Mrs. Oleander, shrilly. "Let him come in. I like peddlers.

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