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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III CONSULTING THE OLDIES We've been such friends together, night and day, That to let them take you, would take half of us away. Old Doll Song. ' Isn't it a good thing, ' said Cecilia, as she made her way, one foot at a time, upstairs, ?' isn't it spull-endid, Thattie, to have got leave for the secret, and still to have it, you know ? For we don't want Nursie to hear about it, do we ?' ' Of course not, ' Sandford replied. It was really much more This's good management than his that had got them leave for their secret, but he was very careful always to keep himself ' eldest'?he did not like when mamma told him he was only ' elder' as there were but two of them, for it did not sound so important. 'Of course not. It'd scarcely be a secret then. You don't understand, Thissie. It's only that if Nurse saw us at the oldies' cupboard andbegan, saying we wasn't to, then we could say mummy had gave us leave.' ' Yes, ' said This, very meekly, ' I do understand. But don't you think, Thattie, it'd be better not to leave them there any more ? We could find some comfable place for them to live in till we pack them to take to the hill, and then it'd be far easier to get them out than if they was still in the cupboard in the nursery.' ' P'raps, ' said That. He would not answer at once, as he liked to think things over, and This never interrupted him when he was thinking things over. ' The first thing to do, ' he said, when they were up in the nursery, ' is to ask the oldies what they think.' ' Yes ?' said This, looking very interested. ' How will you do it, Thattie ?' 'We'll write them a letter, and let them think about it all night. I've read stories about toys getting like fairies in the night?p'raps the oldies are like that, and can talk and walk about when
| ISBN-13 | 9780217563468 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217563465 |
| Weight | 0.36 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.24 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 102 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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