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... jumping about , ' I am so happy I don't know what to do ! ' I said , Nurse , you must be very quick , please , and look out our things , or we shall be late for the train . It goes in an hour . ' ' We shall never be packed in time ...
... jumping about , ' I am so happy I don't know what to do ! ' I said , Nurse , you must be very quick , please , and look out our things , or we shall be late for the train . It goes in an hour . ' ' We shall never be packed in time ...
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... jumping about and clapping her hands . So do I , so do I ! ' cried Tita and Bessie . ' Let us sit down and rest here before we go any further , ' said Aunt Gommie . We were all glad to stop in the shade , for the climbing was hard work ...
... jumping about and clapping her hands . So do I , so do I ! ' cried Tita and Bessie . ' Let us sit down and rest here before we go any further , ' said Aunt Gommie . We were all glad to stop in the shade , for the climbing was hard work ...
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... jump ! ' she cried , pointing to the soft heap . Stand up , and take a flying leap . ' He looked at the heap , and smiled , then shook his head , then stood up on the fork of the tree , and rubbed his hands , then sat down again , and ...
... jump ! ' she cried , pointing to the soft heap . Stand up , and take a flying leap . ' He looked at the heap , and smiled , then shook his head , then stood up on the fork of the tree , and rubbed his hands , then sat down again , and ...
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... jumping up on every rock we passed , and turning head over heels over it . Once he gave us a dreadful fright . There ... jump- ing about over the tumps on the moor , when all of a sudden he rolled down out of our sight , and we heard him ...
... jumping up on every rock we passed , and turning head over heels over it . Once he gave us a dreadful fright . There ... jump- ing about over the tumps on the moor , when all of a sudden he rolled down out of our sight , and we heard him ...
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... , with his net , and I in the middle of the river . I must own that when I first fished I did it after a way of my own , holding the line about a foot out of the water , expecting that the fish would ' jump , A MONTH AT THE GREAT STOWE .
... , with his net , and I in the middle of the river . I must own that when I first fished I did it after a way of my own , holding the line about a foot out of the water , expecting that the fish would ' jump , A MONTH AT THE GREAT STOWE .
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