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    The Skating Party and Other Stories
    The Skating Party and Other Stories
    The Skating Party and Other Stories
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    The Skating Party and Other Stories

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Skating Party and Other Stories - Archive Classics

      Project Gutenberg's The Skating Party and Other Stories, by Unknown

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      Title: The Skating Party and Other Stories

      Author: Unknown

      Release Date: May 31, 2008 [EBook #25655]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SKATING PARTY AND OTHER STORIES ***

      Produced by Jacqueline Jeremy and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      THE

      SKATING PARTY,

      AND

      Other Stories.

      NEW YORK:

      GEO. A. LEAVITT.

      THE SKATING PARTY.

      One cold winter’s morning, Willie’s mother promised to take him to see the skaters on the river. Willie was in great glee, and when they arrived at the river, he wanted to go on the ice but his mother was afraid to venture. The river was frozen very hard, and the merry skaters seemed almost to fly, they went so fast over the glib ice. Now and then one of them would fall down, causing a burst of laughter from the others; but he would jump up and go it again. Skating

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