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Peter's coal-mine.
"What fun!" said Mother, in the dark, feeling for the matches on the table.

"How frightened the poor mice were--I don't believe they were rats at all." She struck a match and relighted the candle and everyone looked at each other by its winky, blinky light.
"Well," she said, "you've often wanted something to happen and now it has.

This is quite an adventure, isn't it?
I told Mrs.Viney to get us some bread and butter, and meat and things, and to have supper ready.

I suppose she's laid it in the dining-room.