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The Golden Scarecrow

CHAPTER IV
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Soon it would strike the seat, and then the statue of the funny fat man in all his clothes, and then, perhaps, the fountain.

He was unhappy a little, and he did not know why: he was conscious, perhaps, of the untidy, noisy room behind him, of his sister Dorothy who, now a Squaw of a quite genuine and realistic kind, was crying at the top of her voice: "I don't care.

I will have it if I want to.

You're _not_ to, Roger," and of Timothy, his baby brother, who, moved by his sister's cries, howled monotonously, persistently, hopelessly.
"Oh, give over, do, Miss Dorothy!" said the nurse, raising her eye for a moment from her book.

"Why can't you be quiet ?" Outside the world was beginning to shine and glitter, inside it was all horrid and noisy.


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