... encoding: ISO-8859-1***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BUSY YEARAT THE OLD SQUIRE'S*** E-text prepared by the Project Gutenberg in the night that we gathered a huge heapof fuel, and ... sitting-room, they wereso illumined by great hopes ahead.Thomas and I, at a light-stand apart from the others, were usually puzzling out aFable The Lion, The Oxen, The Kid and the Wolf, The Fox and the ... minutes, chanting the multiplication tables, the names of the states, the largest cities of the country, oreven the Books of the Bible. At othertimes he would throw open the windowsand set...