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Oh, she didn’t mind now not playing in the school concert
—she didn’t mind missing games and matched and
gym Her ill-luck had turned into a piece of marvelous good luck
—she was actually a monitor
—yes, really and truly one.
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Naughty Amelia
Jane
15 Amelia Jane laughed. She loved doing
naughty things. She liked seeing all the toys staring in horror at the mischief she
had done.
Ha, ha That would teach them to play “Snap” without her
Amelia Jane is happy when she does bad things.
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But she wasn’t a bit ashamed. She was just enjoying thoroughly She ran after
the teddy bear and soaked him with soda-water too.
She squirted lots over the clockwork mouse, and made him so wet
that for two days his clockwork went wrong, and he couldn’t be wound up.
Amelia Jane is happy when she plays tricks on the toys.
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34 The very next night Amelia Jane took off
her shoes because she said her feet were hot.
She put the shoes into a corner and
then danced round the nursery in her stockinged feet, enjoying herself.
Amelia Jane is happy when she enjoys herself.
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84 Well, Amelia Jane laughed till she cried. It
seemed so funny to her to see the teddy bear rushing about with a snake-tail
Amelia Jane is happy when she sees her friends get tricked.
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92 She rushed back into the toy cupboard and
crouched in the darkest corner. And do you The toys are happy when Amelia
Jane is absent on doing naughty
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know, she didn’t come out of the cupboard for two days, so the toys had a lovely
time
playing together
without wondering what mischief Amelia Jane
was up to things.
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144 That pleased Amelia very much. She
thought it would be lovely to have the house all to herself.
She waited until all the toys had squeezed out of the house, and
then she went in. Amelia Jane is happy when she
enjoys everything by herself.
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Boys
24 “Oh—Frisky will be bitten” cried Pat.
“He won’t let go of the bone” Bob ran to the two growling dogs and
caught Frisky by the tail. Frisky barked
crossly —and dropped the bone The other
dog snapped it up and was off at once. Bob has enough guts to separate
two growling dogs.
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90 “You can only see this film if an adult is
with you,” said the manager. “Who brought you in?”
This was too much for Bob. “Nobody, sir We came in by ourselves. We didn’t
know we were too young.”
Bob has courage to tell the truth that they watched the movie
without an adult.
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“We’re the Four Terrors Gang,” Will had
announced one night. “We aren’t afraid of the coppers or anybody, and
don’t you forget it.”
“We aren’t afraid of nobody” said Patrick. It wasn’t true, of course. They were afraid
of their teachers, the ‘coppers’, one or two The gang is courageous to pretend
not to be afraid of nobody.
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