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Jack and Jill

CHAPTER X
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Don't Molly look fine, though ?" and Grif's black eyes twinkled as he planned to pin her skirts to Merry's at the first opportunity.
"Susy looks as gay as a feather-duster.

I like her.

She never snubs a fellow," said Joe, much impressed with the splendor of the court ladies.
The boys' costumes were not yet ready, but they posed well, and all had a merry time, ending with a game of blind-man's-buff, in which every one caught the right person in the most singular way, and all agreed as they went home in the moonlight that it had been an unusually jolly meeting.
So the fairy play woke the sleeping beauty that lies in all of us, and makes us lovely when we rouse it with a kiss of unselfish good-will, for, though the girls did not know it then, they had adorned themselves with pearls more precious than the waxen ones they decked their Princess in..


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