Aladdin O'Brien by Gouverneur Morris
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five yellow kittens, which nobody had the heart to drown, and
about whose necks, at the age of eye-opening, the Widow Brackett tied little white ribbons in large bows. Sometimes Aladdin saw Margaret, but only for a little. So the years passed, and Aladdin turned his sixteenth year. He was very tall and very thin, energetic but not strong, very clever, but with less application than an uncoerced camel. To single him from other boys, he was full of music and visions. And rhymes were beginning to ring in his head. A week came when the rhymes and the music went clean out of his head, which became as heavy as a scuttle full of coal, and he walked about heavily like an old man. VIII One day, during the morning session of school, Aladdin's head got so heavy that he could hardly see, and he felt hot all over. He spoke to the teacher and was allowed to go home. Mrs. Brackett, when she saw him enter the yard, was in great alarm, for she at once supposed that he had done something awful, which was not out of the question, and suffered expulsion. |
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