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 all looked suspicious and put away the things that they cared for, for fear that some one would take them; and the children stopped playing together and divided off into little groups and began fussing among themselves.

"At first I couldn't understand it, and just stood staring at them and wondering how anything so awful could happen so suddenly; and all at once I happened to think that it must be my spectacles that was the matter and not the people at all, because they had all come to look exactly like the spectacles that the man wore. I was so glad that I laughed right out and reached up to take the glasses off; but the string had caught in my hair and I couldn't get it loose. I tried and tried and it got tangled worse and worse all the time and pulled my hair dreadfully. I turned around to ask the man to help me, but he was gone. I kept on working and tugging, and once I got one side lifted a little, so that I could catch a glimpse of the valley, and I saw that I was right,—that the trouble was all with the glasses; for the people were just as lovely and sweet and kind as they were before; and then I tried harder than ever