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fury using language it is perhaps as well we don’t understand.)

You needn't say that; I’m very sorry, but how could I know you were in the drawer?

(her eyes dancing in pursuit of the delicious creature). Oh, Peter, if only she would stand still and let me see her!

(indifferently). They hardly ever stand still.

(To show that she can do even this pauses between two ticks of the cuckoo clock.)

. I see her, the lovely! where is she now?

. She is behind the clock. Tink, this lady wishes you were her fairy. (The answer comes immediately.)

. What does she say?

. She is not very polite. She says you are a great ugly girl, and that she is my fairy. You know, Tink, you can’t be my fairy because I am a gentleman and you are a lady.

( replies.)

. What did she say?