 | Alexander John Arbuthnot (sir) - 1851
...was playing here I looked into this well, when the necklace of pearls that was on my neck, slipped off and fell into the water. Now, if I go home without...take care of my clothes." Having left his clothes on the bank, he descended into the well naked. As soon as he had got to the bottom, the boy took his... | |
 | Clifton College (Bristol, England) - 1867
...necklace of pearls which was on my neck slipped off and fell into the water. Now, if I go home without it, my father and mother will beat me : on this account...thief, thinking he would be able to steal it, said, ' Don't cry, my lad, I will go down into the well and get your pearl necklace : do you only take care... | |
 | G.R. Subramiah Pantulu - Social Science - 1991 - 139 pages
...If he should go home without the necklace, his parents would thrash him, and on that account he was crying. The thief, thinking he would be able to steal it, said to him: — "My lad be not afraid, I will go down into the well and get the pearl necklace ; do you take care... | |
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As а boy was sitting on the brink of a well crying bitterly, a thief came there, and seeing him, asked him why he was crying. He answered, as I was playing here I looked into this well, when the necklace of pearls that was on my neck, slipped off and... 