The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom: In Two Volumes (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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As the occupations of his mother would not conveniently permit her to l'uckle this her firlt-born at her own breaft, and thole happy ages were now no more, in which the charge of our! Ing a child might be left to the next goat or the-wolf, {he refolved to im prove Upon the ordinances of nature, and fotter him with a juice much more energick than the milk of goat, wolf, or woman; this was no other than that delicious necrtar, which, as we have al ready hinted, the to cordially dil'rributed from a final] calk that hung before her, depending from her (boulders by a lea thern zone. Thus determined, ene he was yet twelve days old, (he enclofed him in acanvas knapfack, which being adjulted to her neck, fell down upon her back, and balanced the cargo that relied on her bofom.

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