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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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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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shopkeepers who shouted at them —and
Patrick was terribly afraid of his father. But they liked pretending they were
quite fearless.
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169 The police soon knew everything. All the
boys broke down and confessed what they knew. Poor frightened little Les
even told about the money that had been taken from the cash-box belonging to
the old newsagent not far from the cellar.
All the boys in the gang have the courage to confess their mistake.
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196 “Yes. I am sure he did,” said the
magistrate. “You William, and you Leslie
—you’re brothers, aren’t you? What have you to say about it?”
Les began to cry bitterly. Will looked at the magistrate miserably. “Yes, sir—I
guess we knew it was wrong,” he said.
Will is brave to confess the mistake.
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“Yes. Very,” said Tom. “I hated it—all that nagging and bickering and crying,
and taking sides. And if I go back home
again it’ll all begin again, sire, and I’ll hate it again, and run off.
I’m not sorry I did what I did
– I had to. It was exciting – and
– well, I felt I was paying everyone back for being beastly to me.”
Tom has the courage to tell his opinion
about his
family condition.
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37 “Elizabeth, do what the Meeting says, and
then we’ll watch and see if we can’t catch Robert at his horrid tricks,” begged Joan.
Elizabeth is
not afraid
to apologize to Robert.
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“The whole School will think badly of you if you’re afraid to apologise.”
“I’m not afraid” said Elizabeth, with her eyes flashing angrily.
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151 “It was quite true what William and Rita
said,” thought Kathleen to herself. “I envied Jenny and said she was lucky
because she had so many friends —and I
though because I was an unlucky person none of those nice things happened to me.
But
now I’m trying to be nicer, nice things happen to me too.
It is our own selves that make us lucky or unlucky, it’s
our own selves that bring us friendship and kindness. I was always groaning and
grumbling
about everything
and thinking I would always be unlucky and
wouldn’t be able to help it—but as soon as I changed myself, I changed the
things that happened too What a pity
that everyone doesn’t know that” Kathleen is not afraid to change
herself to be a better person.
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7 The brownies had no wings, but they
managed to climb up the tall tree and get
in at the window whenever it was open. The brownies try hard to climb a
tree. They don’t care about their
limitation.
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47 “I shan’t let you” said Amelia Jane, at
once. “I shall paddle out to sea and sit on the rock over there. I am bigger than any
of you, and I can get through the deep water easily.
You won’t be able to follow Amelia Jane is brave to walk
through the deep sea water.
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