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The Wouldbegoods

CHAPTER 3
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But many people like them.

In Sir Toady Lion the officer salutes the child.
There was only a lieutenant with those soldiers, and he did not salute me.

He kissed his hand to the girls; and a lot of the soldiers behind kissed theirs too.

We waved ours back.
Next day we made a Union Jack out of pocket-handkerchiefs and part of a red flannel petticoat of the White Mouse's, which she did not want just then, and some blue ribbon we got at the village shop.
Then we watched for the soldiers, and after three days they went by again, by twos and twos as before.

It was A1.
We waved our flag, and we shouted.


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