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Book J_a
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Contents
I. CHILDREN AND GRANDFATHERS
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Marjorie Fleming writes her first letter . . i
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MY DEAR AGNES, — You lazy thing! What? I'm to divide the kisses, am I ? Indeed I won't take the trouble to do anything of the sort ! But I'll tell you how to do it. First you must take four of the kisses, and — and that reminds me of a very curious thing that happened to me at half-past four yesterday. Three visitors came knocking at my door, begging me to let them in. And when I opened the door, who do you think they were ? You'll never guess ; why, they were three cats ! Wasn't it curious ? However, they all looked so cross and disagreeable that I took up the first i8
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thing I could lay my hand on (which happened to be the rolling-pin) and knocked them all down as flat as pancakes ! " If yoii come knocking at 7ny door," I said, " I shall come knocking at your heads." That was fair, wasn't it ? — Yours affectionately, Lewis Carroll
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