🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 96

If this dusky old playground for wrinkles, who never saw the inside of a book, could write out all the fairy stories he knows, Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary would hardly hold them.

Who acts: this, wrinkles, back, Unabridged Dictionary · What happens: playground, not see, write out, know, hold · To what, where: inside, fairy stories, stories

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