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    Think Before You Speak or, The Three Wishes
    Think Before You Speak or, The Three Wishes
    Think Before You Speak or, The Three Wishes
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    Think Before You Speak or, The Three Wishes

    By Madame (Jeanne-Marie) Leprince de Beaumont and Catherine Ann Turner Dorset

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Think Before You Speak or, The Three Wishes - Madame (Jeanne-Marie) Leprince de Beaumont

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Think Before You Speak, by Catherine Dorset

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Think Before You Speak

      The Three Wishes

      Author: Catherine Dorset

      Release Date: June 4, 2008 [EBook #25698]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK ***

      Produced by David Wilson. (This file was produced from

      images generously made available by The Internet

      Archive/American Libraries.)

      i FRONTISPIECE

      1 THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK:

      OR, THE

      THREE WISHES.

      A TALE.

      BY THE AUTHOR OF THE

      PEACOCK AT HOME.

      THIRD EDITION.

      LONDON:

      PRINTED FOR M. J. GODWIN,

      AT THE JUVENILE LIBRARY, NO. 41, SKINNER STREET;

      AND TO BE HAD OF ALL BOOKSELLERS.

      1810.

      2London: Printed by B. McMillan,

      Bow Street, Covent Garden.

      }

      3PREFACE.

      THE following Tale is principally taken from the admirable Work of Madame de Beaumont (Le Magazin des Enfans), which formed almost the whole library and the delight of the children of the last generation, and has hardly been surpassed by the many excellent productions which supply the nurseries and school-rooms of the present.

      The story is there told with the simplicity and sprightliness of which the French language is so peculiarly capable, but which a literal translation

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