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Up and down, up and down the tree he climbed again and again, carrying thorns and quietly setting them in the nest, and as he went up and down he kept whispering to himself: "I'm a gamblesome elf; oh, yes, indeed I am a gamblesome elf."
The Counterpane Fairy Katharine Pyle 1900
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"I wonder what she was crying about," said the gamblesome elf to himself, as he stared after them.
The Counterpane Fairy Katharine Pyle 1900
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"Ugh! there's one of those nasty gamblesome elves," he said.
The Counterpane Fairy Katharine Pyle 1900
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Then he remembered that he was a gamblesome elf, so he made
The Counterpane Fairy Katharine Pyle 1900
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A gamblesome elf has come to live in old Granddaddy Thistletop's house. "
The Counterpane Fairy Katharine Pyle 1900
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I wouldn't keep them in the same tree with that gamblesome elf -- no, not a night longer -- for all the mice you could offer me. "
The Counterpane Fairy Katharine Pyle 1900
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