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The Wouldbegoods

CHAPTER 12
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And then he said we had hurt him, and we said we were only in fun, and he said if we were he wasn't, and ill feeling might have grown up even out of a playful brotherly act like ours had been, only Alice chucked the Halma and said-- 'Let dogs delight.

Come on--let's play something.' Then Dora said, 'Yes, but look here.

Now we're together I do want to say something.

What about the Wouldbegoods Society ?' Many of us groaned, and one said, 'Hear! hear!' I will not say which one, but it was not Oswald.
'No, but really,' Dora said, 'I don't want to be preachy--but you know we DID say we'd try to be good.

And it says in a book I was reading only yesterday that NOT being naughty is not enough.


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