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Flora Klickmann. The Lady-with-the-Crumbs
The Lady-with-the-Crumbs
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE LITTLE WHITE DOG ARRIVES
CHAPTER II. HOW THE NEWS WENT ROUND
CHAPTER III. A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE
CHAPTER IV. MRS. STARLING OBLIGES
CHAPTER V. MRS. STARLING SEES THINGS!
CHAPTER VI. THE LOST ONE RETURNS
CHAPTER VII. EVERYBODY EXPLAINS
CHAPTER VIII. BOBBIE DECIDES TO TRAVEL TOO
CHAPTER IX. BUSHY TAIL MAKES HIMSELF USEFUL
CHAPTER X. THE KING COMES BACK!
CHAPTER XI. THE LITTLE DOG HAS A SORROW
CHAPTER XII. THE REAL KING IS CROWNED
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Flora Klickmann
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“Ha! Ha! I don’t suppose they do,” said the squirrel. “There is nothing to put in them up there! Not a single walnut rattling down from a tree in all the streets. Not a mushroom growing on any of the pavements. Not a brook with watercress for tea running by the side of the tramlines. Never a plum or cherry tree for miles; no strawberries by the roadside―I know! The swallows have told me what a wretched place London is. How could anyone talk with his mouth full up there? London is where your friend Mother Hubbard lives. A nice state of affairs her cupboard is in!”
But Mac declined to waste any of his precious time on this exasperating creature, who was really worse than a cat, because it would leap from bough to bough above his head, and just out of his reach. So he turned his back upon the squirrel and looked the other way, with his tail in the air.
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