22 CHRISTMAS IN SWITZERLAND.

to do next, for it seemed very ungrateful to go away without
thanking the kind Fairy who had given them so good a
dinner in exchange for their bread and potatoes. There was

   

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no Fairy, however, to be seen, and the Rabbits stood there
bowing so politely, that neither Marie nor her grandfather felt
it right to be sitting there so long and keeping them out