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Hu shih, chinese nationalist diplomat and scholar, an important leader of chinese thought who helped establish the vernacular as the official written language 1922. Hopomythumb went up to the ogre softly and pulled off his seven. I had thought that the gruesomeness of hans christian andersens the red shoes, the familiarity of things like hop o my thumb seven league boots and the sheer briskness of the. By chance he sat on the rock where the little boys had hid themselves.
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