The Land of Lost Toys

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Ewing Juliana Horatia Gatty. The Land of Lost Toys

THE LAND OF LOST TOYS

AN EARTHQUAKE IN THE NURSERY

AUNT PENELOPE

THE LAND OF LOST TOYS

SAM SETS UP SHOP

THE BROWNIES

THE STORY OF A GRAVE-STONE

THE DOCTOR'S TEA PARTY

A BORROWED BROWNIE

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It was certainly an aggravated offence. It is generally understood in families that "boys will be boys," but there is a limit to the forbearance implied in the extenuating axiom. Master Sam was condemned to the back nursery for the rest of the day.

He always had had the knack of breaking his own toys, – he not unfrequently broke other people's; but accidents will happen, and his twin sister and factotum, Dot, was long-suffering.

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"'I'm quite sure it wouldn't,' I hastened to reply. 'I wouldn't try for worlds. It would spoil your pretty work in a moment. Good-evening.'

"And I hurried forward. Once I looked back, but the spider was not following me. He was in his hole again, on his stomach, with his knees above his head, and looking (apparently through his spectacles) down the road up which I came.

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