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Rh could scarcely get it out of his mouth again.

Just at that moment his aunt came into the room and caught him with the apple in his hand, and his teeth full of wax; for these beautiful, fine looking apples, like many other fine things in the world, were good for nothing but to look at. They were made of wax, and so skilfully shaped, and so beautifully coloured, that any one would have supposed them to have been real apples.