The Blind Toy-Maker
Editing and commentary copyright © 2000 by Hugo S. Cunningham
Original Soviet text (if it appears here) was not copyrighted.
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The following story appears as an English-language reading lesson in
E. Belova and L. Todd,English: A Textbook of the English Language for the 7th Grade in 7-year and Secondary Schools (third edition)State Textbook and Pedagogical Publishers of the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR, Moscow, 1951; pp. 34-35.
THE BLIND TOY-MAKER
From The Cricket on the Hearth
by Charles Dickens
Editor's note:
This abridgement is reasonably true to the spirit of Dickens's The Cricket on the Hearth. Look for it at the beginning of Chapter 2.
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