Twinkle and Chubbins: Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland
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, and soon discovered several gold-fishes swim
, strutting up and down the gravel walk before her
ke a dream,"
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he replied. "You don't for a mo
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ren't you Mist
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omething I've eaten?
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unted for. But this conversation is all wrong. When one is dreaming one doesn
IT'S SOMETHI
garden," said Twinkle. "I
mfortable in my presence. You see, you're one of the deadliest enemies of my race.
of. But when a woodchuck gets eating our clover and the vegetables, and spoils
le animals that can't help themselves, and have to eat what they can fi
lt a littl
s to earn our living," she explained; "and if
y, there is no reason why you should be so cruel. It hurts dreadfully to be caught in a trap, and an animal captured in that way sometimes has to suffer for man
ing sorry and repentant. "I'll as
ou wake up. But that isn't enough to settle the account for all our past sufferings, I assure you; so I am trying to t
" said the little girl, "yo
CHUCK AND
er Woodchuck, pausing in
revenge as it is to be se
. "But woodchucks are not perfect, any more than men are, so you'll have to take us as you find us. And now I'll call my fam
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w, you will be before