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Title: Little Miss Peggy; only a nursery story
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Molesworth, Mrs., 1839-1921
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Publisher: New York, A. L. Burt
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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. Oh, yes, I know mother goes thereherself sometimes, though as for that she goesto old Whelans too. But were wasting time;lets ask Fanny for a tin basin and lots ofsoap. They were soon all four very happy at thepretty play. The prettiness of it was whatPeggy enjoyed the most; the boys, boy-like,thought little but of who could blow thebiggest bubbles, which, as everybody knows,are seldom as rich in color as smaller ones. I like the rainbowiest ones the best, saidPeggy. I dont care for those normous onesThor makes. Do you, Baldwin ? Baldwin stopped to consider, I suppose very big things arent never sopretty as littler things, he said at last, when asort of grunt from Terry interrupted him.Terry could not speak; his cheeks were all inty wxre soon all four \/iry n<\bpy of if was what P*gu(oJoIi5which, AS ivirybody knows20T5 sslolorn &s rich incolour C\S srncxlkr om5,
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SOAP-B UBBLTNG. 155 puffed out round the pipe, and he dared not tostop blowing. He could only grunt and nodhis head sharply to catch their attention to thewonderful triumph in soap-bubbles floating be-fore his nose. There was a big one, as big asany of Thorolds, and up on the top of it alovely every-colored wee one, the most brilliantthe children had ever seen—a real rainbowball. They all clapped their hands, or at leastPeofoy and Baldwin did so. Thorold shouted, Hurrah for Terrys new invention. Its likea monkey riding on an elephant. But Peggydid not think that was a pretty idea. Its more like one of the very little starssitting on the suns knee, was her comparison,which Baldwin corrected to the moon—the sunwas too yellow, he said, to be like a no-colorbubble. Then they all set to work to try to makedouble bubbles, and Thor actually managed tomake three, one on the top of the other. AndTerry made a very big one run ever so far alongthe carpet without breaking, bobbing anddancing

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