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Title: The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast

Author: Mr. Roscoe

Commentator: Charles Welsh

Release Date: March 20, 2007 [EBook #20860]

Language: English

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AND THE
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By Mr. ROSCOE.

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GOODY TWO-SHOES

A FACSIMILE REPRODUCTION

OF THE

EDITION OF 1766

_WITH AN INTRODUCTION_

GIVING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE BOOK AND SOME SPECULATIONS
AS TO ITS AUTHORSHIP

BY

CHARLES WELSH

"The facsimile of 'Goody Two-Shoes,' which Mr Welsh has edited,
and Messrs Griffith and Farran published, might be classed among
the Christmas books of the season, but it deserves more extended
notice, as reproducing a volume which, if hardly known to the
present