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Identifier: livedollsinwonde00gate (find matches)
Title: The live dolls in Wonderland
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Gates, Josephine Scribner, 1859-1930 Keep, Virginia
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Publisher: Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Company

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With a roguish look. Jack nodded his
head and held up a gilded paper crown
all crushed and broken.
"Yes," he said, "but I've bushels of
them. I dont mind. Indeed, we think
its fun, don't we, Jill? "Now tell me,
are you a person or just a voice?"
Oh," laughed Dinah, "I forgot! Im a
voice now but I can be a person at the
same time, too."
She motioned to Rosabell, who twirled
her wand, and Jack and Jill gazed in
astonishment at the black vision.

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THE LIVE DOLLS

"Where did you come from?" they
cried in chorus.
"Oh, from far away. Now you see me,
and now you don't. Good-by, and
thank you for telling me the truth about
your crown."
Away went Dinah and her companions,
leaving Jack and Jill to climb the hill,
wondering much over what they had seen.
"See that little girl carrying a crook!"
cried Silver Bird. "She seems quite
downcast.
"Do you see why? The sheep follow-
ing her are bleating piteously. They
have no tails. See them tumbling over
one another, and dear, dear, there are th
etails all hanging out on that bush to dry!

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"Did you really break vour crown, Mr. Jack?"

IN WONDERLAND

"Make me into a bird and I'll get all
the tails and tie them on with sweet
grass."
And so presently the bleating ceased.
Bo-Peep and the sheep went happily on
their way, while our little band ran after
a sleek pussy-cat.
" 'Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you
been'?" cried Rosabell, with twinkling
eyes.
To her astonishment came the answer
quick as a wink
"I've been to London to visit the
Queen."
"Did you truly frighten a mouse under
her chair?"
"Indeed I did," and she invited me to

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THE LIVE DOLLS

come often, and fed me milk out of a gold
saucer."
This dialogue was interrupted by shrill
wails from children.
"Look over this fence,"
cried Silver
Bird. "It's the Old Woman who lived
in her shoe and had so many children she
didn't know what to do.'
"Poor little babies, let's take her whip
from her with the wand."
The wand flashed, the whip disappeared,
while the old woman gazed in astonish-
ment at her empty upraised hand, then at
the weeping tots.

"Give them some bread
And kiss them instead."
sang silver Bird in shrill tones

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