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WAFFLES AND A WALK 



AAQIY BUN cooked a delicious 

 Slipper for the children that 

 night, for the circus had put 

 her in extra good humor. 



As it was tlie first of the 

 really cool evenings, she sur- 

 prised them with hot cocoa 

 in tlie place of their usual 

 glasses of milk, and there was 

 cream toast, and cold chicken 

 and tongue sliced daintily together. 



The children had famous appetites, and Mr. Blake 

 said he expected by spring they would all be as fat as 

 Sausage herself. 



" Not if you carry out all the plans I have for mak- 

 ing you work and keeping j'ou out-of-doors,' said the 

 Doctor. 



" What ? What are we going to do ? Is there a sur- 

 prise ? " asked Dodo eagerly, reluctantly setting down 

 her teacup. " School takes so much time and the rest 

 of it is nearly all dark. Oh ! I smell waffles ' " 



" What is nearly all dark, — the school, or the time, 

 or the waffles ? " asked the Doctor, as soon as the laugh, 

 caused by Dodo's mixed-up sentences, had stopped. 



