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Title: What happened then stories
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Dyer, Ruth O Young, Florence Liley
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Publisher: Boston : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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sfather and mother talking. I am very much afraid that our childrenwill starve if we keep them here, said thefather. I have heard, said the mother, that to the south side of the forest is the giantshouse, but to the north side is the home of a 207 HOP 0 MY THUMB kind old fairy who takes all the children andbaby animals she finds in the woods andcares for them. If we take our seven boys to the north side of the woods and leave them,she will find them and care for them untilthe spring comes when we can again plantour garden and raise something to eat. That is a good idea, said the father. To-morrow we will leave them near herhouse. Hop O My Thumb did not much relishthe idea of living in an old fairys house.He much preferred his own father andmother and the gray cottage. So he creptout of bed and went down by the brook.Here he filled his pockets with small pebbles.The next day as they walked on through theforest he dropped the pebbles on the way. The children had always considered it a 208
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He dropped the pebbles on the way.—Page 208. WHAT HAD ALREADY HAPPENED picnic to go with their parents into thewoods, so they played and had great sportwhile their father and mother went onfarther to gather sticks. But as the hourspassed by and their parents did not return,the oldest six boys began to cry. Hop O MyThumb, however, was very confident that hecould find his way home, so he comfortedthem by telling them that as soon as the sunset, he would show them the way home. Just as the sun began to sink below thehorizon, he said, Come on, brothers, theseold woods will soon be dark. Let us go onhome. It was not hard to find the way, for thepebbles guided them safely, and just as itwas getting dark, the boys came in sight oftheir home. There was a bright light in thewindow and Hop O My Thumb said, Let 209 HOP a MY THUMB us steal up very quietly and see what Fatherand Mother are doing. When they looked in at the window, theysaw that their mother was crying and theirfather was trying t

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