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] . It was exactly as if some one were pulling my hair!

. That must have been Tink. I never knew her so naughty before.

( speaks. She is in the jug again.)

. What does she say?

. She says she will do that every time I give you a thimble.

. But why?

(equally nonplussed). Why, Tink? (He has to translate the answer.) She said ‘You silly ass’ again.

. She is very impertinent. (They are sitting on the floor now.) Peter, why did you come to our nursery window?

. To try to hear stories. None of us knows any stories.

. How perfectly awful!

. Do you know why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories. Wendy, your mother was telling you such a lovely story.

. Which story was it?