Word: grandmamma
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Just as Louis XVI. loved lock making, so Charles IV. of Spain had a craze for the manufacture of sausages, which he carried on in strict seclusion in a building specially set apart for it. Lady B., a handsome English woman, true to the instincts of Grandmamma Eve, must needs peep in on his most Christian majesty. He detected the fair spy, and punished her by seizing her with his bloody hands and repeatedly kissing...
LITTLE Henry was crying. Not because he was cold or hungry, or because he had lost his top, or because his grandmamma had found it necessary to use her slipper for another purpose than protecting her aged foot. He was crying because the time to part with all the dear ones at home had come. That morning his grandmamma had taken him apart and had said, "You're getting a big boy now, Henry, and it is necessary that you go out into the world to seek your fortune. You cannot expect to live in this forest all your days...
When he regained consciousness he found himself before a cave, which he immediately recognized as the cave of the Bowsir, described to him by his kind grandmamma. He could make out the inscription over the door - Bowsir's Offers, 9 to 1. Thinking that this was heavy odds, and finding it was now half-past three, Henry did not attempt to enter the cave, but was about to pass on when he was grabbed violently by the arm. "???" cried a voice; and he saw a person little older than himself with a note-book and pencil. "Two dollars a year...
...Your grandmamma - the chances...