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Jack and Jill

CHAPTER III
7/18

Won't it be jolly! I can't look out to see him do it; but, when you pull your string, my little bell rings, and I know a message is coming.

I send you an orange.

Do you like _gorver_ jelly?
People send in lots of goodies, and we will go halves.

Good-by.
"Jack" Away went the basket, and in fifteen minutes it came back from the cottage with nothing in it but the orange.
"Hullo! Is she mad ?" asked Jack, as Frank brought the despatch for him to examine.
But, at the first touch, the hollow peel opened, and out fell a letter, two gum-drops, and an owl made of a peanut, with round eyes drawn at the end where the stem formed a funny beak.

Two bits of straw were the legs, and the face looked so like Dr.Whiting that both boys laughed at the sight.
"That's so like Jill; she'd make fun if she was half dead.


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