This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...poor creature!" said Peter in a half whisper. "I really cannot endure Silva now." "You see, then," returned Gutenberg, "how, when untaught, human beings come to resemble beasts of prey." He turned and went out into the garden, where he told Silva to let the frog go immediately, and never to catch and eat another. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...poor creature!" said Peter in a half whisper. "I really cannot endure Silva now." "You see, then," returned Gutenberg, "how, when untaught, human beings come to resemble beasts of prey." He turned and went out into the garden, where he told Silva to let the frog go immediately, and never to catch and eat another. CHAPTER X. JOYS AND SORROWS. Althotjgii Gutenberg had provided Silva with clothes no way differing from those of the other children of the neighbourhood, they, nevertheless, were in the habit, as soon as she appeared in the street, of loudly raising the cry, "There goes the wild girl!" and then a long train of idle boys would follow, teasing and provoking her; a circumstance of which she frequently complained to her father. "You must shew, then," he said, "that you are not a savage, by not screaming and scratching and biting. Go quietly on your way, and they will soon be tired of persecuting you." Silva summoned up all her resolution, and did as she was told. She was now permitted to take little walks about the neighbourhood by herself. One morning she accompanied Ennel to the market at Strasburg, and whilst the latter was bargaining with a farmer's wife for some butter, Silva strayed away from her side, and lost herself in the crowd of buyers and sellers. She contemplated with great curiosity the various articles that were exposed for sale--the market gardener's vegetables, the bright flowers, the piles of cheeses, and baskets of butter. A great temptation to her was the sight of plucked fowls and eggs without number. A dozen times she had longingly stretched out her hand towards them, but had restrained herself and passed on. At last she came in sight of some peasant women, who carr...
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