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Updated: May 24, 2025
Time after time, these waxen ladies were bravely rescued and ceremoniously restored, dripping from the waves, to their anxious little owner, who, truth to tell, caught more colds than one in tending the shipwrecked doll-people. But, in after days, Alick and Ned struck out quite a new line.
'Come along, Queenie; there's Mrs. Vesey standing at the drawing-room window waving to us. We must not keep her waiting. Can't you leave your doll-people in the boat, dear? Binks will see that the dogs don't worry them to bits. 'Ay, ay! That I will, missy. Bless 'em both, they're picters, they two, as taut and trig as you please.
They were the smallest doll-people he had ever seen, and were packed by dozens and dozens in Nuremberg toy-boxes, and cost very little, so he bought a quantity of them.
'Queenie dear, it is one o'clock; you may take your lesson-book, and make yourself and your doll-people tidy for dinner. Queenie obediently trotted off to the house, and the speaker continued. 'What's all this about Jerry Blunt, boys? I thought he was a sailor? What in the world has a sailor to do with training bullfinches, I want to know?
'Now, Queenie, went on Theo gleefully, 'in five minutes I shall be ready for you, and we are going to have a good time in the boat. Get your hat on, deary. 'May I bring some of my doll-people, Theo? Queenie turned as she was disappearing through the doorway to ask anxiously. 'Oh dear, yes!
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