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 said one gold bug. "I choose the blue one."

"You cannot have her," said the other gold bug, "I choose her."

"I will dance with the blue dragon fly," said the second gold bug.

So they quarreled until two other gold bugs came along, and asked the dragon flies to dance with them, so that was an end of the matter.

The two green and glittering gold bugs then said they would play at something else.

"We will play hide and seek," said the first gold bug.

"No, we will play tag," said the second gold bug.

"I will play nothing but hide and seek," said the first gold bug.

"And I will play nothing but tag," said the second gold bug.

"I am going to hide," said the first gold bug; so he went away and hid himself beneath a clover leaf, but, ah, there was no one to blind, and then go and look for him.

"I will run," said the second gold bug; so he ran, but, ah, there was no one to catch him. It was not fun to play that way, and there was an end of the matter.