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Beautiful Joe

CHAPTER XX STORIES ABOUT ANIMALS
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They all had bright and good faces, and many of them stopped to pat me as I came out.

One little girl gave me a biscuit from her school bag.
Mrs.Wood waited at the door till Mr.Maxwell came limping out on his crutches.

She introduced him to Miss Laura, and asked him if he wouldn't go and take tea with them.

He said he would be very happy to do so, and then Mrs.Wood laughed; and asked him if he hadn't better empty his pockets first.

She didn't want a little toad jumping over her tea table, as one did the last time he was there..


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