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were white and fair, with
roses growing on their
cheeks, and when they
smiled their pretty teeth
were as white as the lily-
bells.

And they did smile
very often, and laugh
too. As they tripped
hand-in-hand down the
rough pathway they
laughed to feel the
(Mu. ; flowers and the grasses
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hey brippedalonel{i. feet, and laughed again
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to see how they slipped

upon the green and pink
mosses that grew upon the stones and were wet with
the dews of the night.

They laughed at the dragon-flies that floated past
them in the warm air; they laughed at the squirrels
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