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... laughed , and went on washing up her tea - cups and saucers . ' All right , Miss Bessie . All will be ready . Just bring your brushes and combs in here to me , and give me your shoes . I will put them in the bag . ' ' The bag ! ' cried ...
... laughed , and went on washing up her tea - cups and saucers . ' All right , Miss Bessie . All will be ready . Just bring your brushes and combs in here to me , and give me your shoes . I will put them in the bag . ' ' The bag ! ' cried ...
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... laughed at this trusting idea of Tita's . " ' Then there are lots of cows , ' said Syd , with a sly look at Minnie . Minnie has a little weakness about horned things , especially cows , and so have I , for that matter . I don't care to ...
... laughed at this trusting idea of Tita's . " ' Then there are lots of cows , ' said Syd , with a sly look at Minnie . Minnie has a little weakness about horned things , especially cows , and so have I , for that matter . I don't care to ...
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... laughing . The best of it was , that the pills , which she had so carefully brought , in case we should be ill , were all gone . The cover had come off in the scrimmage , and they had rolled away among the corn . Perhaps the field ...
... laughing . The best of it was , that the pills , which she had so carefully brought , in case we should be ill , were all gone . The cover had come off in the scrimmage , and they had rolled away among the corn . Perhaps the field ...
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... laughed , to be sure ! Tita isn't quite six , and she never saw a calf before . After that , we used to say , when we saw it , — There goes Tita's lion ! ' She was just as terrified at the turkey - cock , when he came strutting past her ...
... laughed , to be sure ! Tita isn't quite six , and she never saw a calf before . After that , we used to say , when we saw it , — There goes Tita's lion ! ' She was just as terrified at the turkey - cock , when he came strutting past her ...
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... laughed . He did not seem to like it much . It was such a high jump . ' Come , try ! ' cried Aunt Gommie . Still he seemed unwilling , and did not move ; and Aunt Gommie turned away , and asked me if I thought that Bessie and I could ...
... laughed . He did not seem to like it much . It was such a high jump . ' Come , try ! ' cried Aunt Gommie . Still he seemed unwilling , and did not move ; and Aunt Gommie turned away , and asked me if I thought that Bessie and I could ...
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