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Updated: May 4, 2025
Of course I immediately wished for a collar-stud, and I was just hopping round on my right leg for the third time, having begun with the left one, when Mrs. Putchy entered the room.
"It makes me very unhappy when you are in a mood like this; I do not understand it, and it seems to raise up an impassable barrier between us." "Please don't be unhappy about a little thing like that; wait till you break a front tooth, or lose your collar-stud, or have some other real trouble to cry over.
I hurriedly turned to the letter C, intending to look for "collar-stud" but, to my great disappointment, there was no such word to be found. "Of course not," I suddenly thought; "the people who live in the land from which Shin Shira comes don't wear such things," and I let my mind wander back to my little friend with his yellow silk costume and turban.
Of course! the wish! I had another wish left according to what the little book had told me. I had wished for a collar-stud, and had found my own. Perhaps if I wished for the jewellery The thought no sooner entered my head than I jumped up and began hopping on one leg repeating "Fairies, fairies! grant my wishes, You can do so if you will, Birds and beasts and " "Oh, he's mad, he's gone mad.
"What's your collar-stud to do with me, or Batchelor?" demanded Smith, who evidently saw nothing to laugh at. "Why, you've stolen it!" shouted Horncastle. Smith gazed solemnly at the speaker. "You're a fool," he said, quietly. This cool remark drove the irate Horncastle nearly frantic.
She looked rather surprised at seeing me engaged in what must have seemed to her rather an extraordinary occupation, but she is so used to strange things happening with me that she made no remark, except to point to a spot just in front of the fire-place, where, to my great surprise, I could see the very collar-stud which I had wanted. "Extraordinary!" I exclaimed, as I picked it up.
He indicated the collar-stud merchant. "The gentleman over there with the portable Woolworth-bargain-counter seems to me to have the best theory." The stout young man, whose peculiar behaviour had drawn all this flattering attention from the many-headed and who appeared considerably ruffled by the publicity, had been puffing noisily during the foregoing conversation.
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