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CHAPTER I

Jackie was a little boy and he had a little sister named Peggs, and
they lived with their Aunt who was very old, maybe thirty-two.

And it was so very long since she had been a little girl, that she
quite forgot that children need toys to play with and all that.

So poor little Jackie and Peggs had no soldiers or dolls but could
only play at make-believe all day long.

They lived in a little white house nearly all covered with
honeysuckle, and a little white fence with a little white gate in it
ran all about and at the back of the little white house was a little
garden with beautiful flowers growing in it.

And once, when they were making pies in the garden, Peggs began to cry