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Half-Past Seven Stories by Robert Gordon Anderson
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he had stuffed his pockets, so that he looked as if he had tremendous
warts or knobs all over his body.

"Did you ever!" said Mother, and all three--she, the Toyman, and
Father--kept watching, trying hard not to laugh. It paid them to watch
him, too, for they were going to see something worth-while, better
than a "movie," better even than a circus.

Well, after all the errands were over, Marmaduke collected some
shingles, and all the cups and tins in which the Three Happy Children
made mud-pies. And he spread them out on the table in the summer-house
very carefully.

Can you guess what he did that for? I don't believe you can. I know I
couldn't.

Then he took his little scoopnet, and went to the pond and put the net
in. Out it came, and in the meshes flopped and tumbled and
somersaulted three tiny fish.

These he placed in one of the pans on the table in the summer-house,
and then hurried to the rabbit-hutch and opened the sliding door and
called,--

"Come, Bunny, Bunny,
An' don't be funny!"

But first we must explain that Marmaduke had a queer trick of making
rhymes. I guess he caught it from the Toyman, who used to make lots
for the children, just to see them laugh. So Marmaduke got the habit.
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