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The Story of the Amulet

CHAPTER 1
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And I vote we see everything there is, and let's begin by asking Nurse to give us some bits of bread and we'll go to St James's Park.

There are ducks there, I know, we can feed them.

Only we must make Nurse let us go by ourselves.' 'Hurrah for liberty!' said Robert, 'but she won't.' 'Yes she will,' said Jane unexpectedly.

'_I_ thought about that this morning, and I asked Father, and he said yes; and what's more he told old Nurse we might, only he said we must always say where we wanted to go, and if it was right she would let us.' 'Three cheers for thoughtful Jane,' cried Cyril, now roused at last from his yawning despair.

'I say, let's go now.' So they went, old Nurse only begging them to be careful of crossings, and to ask a policeman to assist in the more difficult cases.


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