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The Ship of Stars

CHAPTER III
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This bore on either side the picture of an Indian queen and two blackamoor children, all with striped parasols, walking together across a desert.

The queen on one side wore a scarlet turban and a blue robe; but the queen on the other side wore a blue turban and a scarlet robe.

Taffy dodged from side to side, comparing them, and had not made up his mind which he liked best when Humility called him indoors to tea.
They had ham and eggs with their tea, which they took in a great hurry; and then his grandmother was lifted into the cart and laid on a bed of clean straw beside the boxes, and he and his mother clambered up in front.

So they started again, his father walking at the horse's head.

They took the road toward the sunset.


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