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though, bein' half-soled twice, they hadn't, of course, been
worth takin' away."

Whereupon her dearest friend, Miss Scrumpkins, ran home
to tell all about it. And, as everybody knew the Scrump-
kinses, a shining gossamer of news was soon woven from one
end of the street to the other.

An investigating committee met that evening at Mrs. Snig-
ham's, sitting, in secret session, over her best china. Though
invited only to a quiet "tea," the amount of judicial business
they transacted on the occasion was prodigious. The biscuits
were actually cold before the committee had a chance to eat
anything. There was so much to talk over, and it was so
important that it should be firmly established that each member
had always been "certain sure that something extraordinary
would be happening to that man yet," that it was near eight
o'clock before Mrs. Snigham gave anybody a second cup.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Hans Brinker, or, the Silver Skates: A Story of Life in Holland. Contributors: Mary Mapes Dodge - author, Allen B. Doggett - illustrator. Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1901. Page Number: 382.
    
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