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The Railway Children

CHAPTER XIII
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And they tied me up.
They got it out of Stalky.

And I think it's a beastly shame." He managed to writhe over and hide his face against the wooden back of the settle.
"I didn't think that anyone would know but us," said Bobbie, indignantly answering Peter's unspoken reproach.

"I never thought of your coming in.
And hearing about blood and wounds does really make me feel most awfully funny.

It was only a joke our tying him up.

Let me untie you, Pete." "I don't care if you never untie me," said Peter; "and if that's your idea of a joke--" "If I were you," said the Doctor, though really he did not quite know what to say, "I should be untied before your Mother comes down.


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