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wall, he had the misfortune to step on
the end of the rope, on which, Mary had
hung all the day’s washing, and being
hindered by it, he pulled so upon the
rope with his foot, that the nail which
held it came out, and at the same mo-
ment, poor Harry was crushed under
an enormous weight of wet linen. Af.
ter the astonishing and marvellous sto-
ries his sister had told him, he thought
_ the wet linen could be nothing but an
enormous giant, which was going to
bury him alive.

When Mary went into the closet, her
anger was at its height; for Sophie in

fumbling about for the box of dominoes,
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