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one of them, " saving the other to put on when he 

 had soiled the first," she said. 



" Now, Father, make your little hoy a set of 

 toy dishes," she said. 



" I see no use in all this trouble. We will be 

 no better off than we were in the first place," said 

 the man. 



" Why, yes, we are already better off," said the 

 wife. " Before we had the doll we had nothing 

 to talk about except ourselves. Now we have 

 the doll to talk about and to amuse us." 



To please her the husband made the toy dishes, 

 and she placed the doll in the seat of honor on the 

 bench opposite the door, with the dishes full of 

 food and water before it. 



When the couple had gone to bed that night 

 the room was very dark and they heard several 

 low, whistling sounds. 



" Do you hear that? It is the doll," said the 

 woman, shaking her husband till he awakened. 



They got up at once and, making a light, saw 

 that the Doll had eaten the food and drunk the 

 water, and that its eyes were moving. The 

 woman caught it up with delight and fondled and 

 played with it for a long time. When she be- 

 came tired she put it back on the bench and they 



went to bed again. 



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