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    Self-Denial or, Alice Wood, and Her Missionary Society
    Self-Denial or, Alice Wood, and Her Missionary Society
    Self-Denial or, Alice Wood, and Her Missionary Society
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    Self-Denial or, Alice Wood, and Her Missionary Society

    By American Sunday-School Union

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Self-Denial or, Alice Wood, and Her Missionary Society

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      Self-Denial or, Alice Wood, and Her Missionary Society - American Sunday-School Union

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      Title: Self-Denial

      or, Alice Wood, and Her Missionary Society

      Author: American Sunday-School Union

      Release Date: November 15, 2007 [EBook #23478]

      Language: English

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      SELF-DENIAL;

      OR,

      ALICE WOOD, AND HER

      MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

      The village school-house was situated on a pretty green, and surrounded by old elm-trees, and at a short distance and in full sight was a candy-shop, kept by an old woman, whom the children called Mother Grimes. Mother Grimes knew how to make the very best candies and cakes that ever were eaten, and almost every day she displayed in her shop-window some new kind of cake, or some new variety of candy, to excite the curiosity or tempt the palates of her little customers, who found it a very difficult matter to pass Mother Grimes's shop on their way from school.

      One day, just after the school-bell rang to give notice of the recess, a pretty little girl, by the name of Alice Wood, was seen very busily running about among the school-girls and whispering to one and another. Her object was to induce them to remain a little while after the school, as she had something to propose to them. Alice was a great

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