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The Railway Children

CHAPTER XIII
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I wish Doctors weren't so stuck-up about who they'll have in the room when they're doing things.

I should most awfully like to see a leg set.

I believe the bones crunch like anything." "Don't!" said the two girls at once.
"Rubbish!" said Peter.

"How are you going to be Red Cross Nurses, like you were talking of coming home, if you can't even stand hearing me say about bones crunching?
You'd have to HEAR them crunch on the field of battle--and be steeped in gore up to the elbows as likely as not, and--" "Stop it!" cried Bobbie, with a white face; "you don't know how funny you're making me feel." "Me, too," said Phyllis, whose face was pink.
"Cowards!" said Peter.
"I'm not," said Bobbie.

"I helped Mother with your rake-wounded foot, and so did Phil--you know we did." "Well, then!" said Peter.


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