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Rh After lunch the children ran races for prizes, and Benny was invited to compete with the rest. This suited him exactly, and very soon after, with about a dozen others, he was bounding up a broad avenue between the trees, in a well-matched and most exciting race.



For the first half of the distance Benny dropped into the rear, then he began gradually to gain upon the others.