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cause, you see, though she never
thought of it, she might have beaten
a hole in the sieve, which would not
have pleased her good mother at all.

The two children and their dog
were very happy, until the father
began telling them in the evenings
about what really happens in battles,
how the men fight and kill cach
other, or give each other dreadful
wounds that hurt very much; so
that sometimes poor fellows are
obliged to have their arms or their
legs cut off, and do with only one,
or perhaps without any, all the rest
of their lives.

And then May decided that she
had rather that Johnny should not