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40 in a moment more, framed in the dolphin's mouth.

"Do just what I did," she said in a loud whisper. Plum-Blossom tried to obey, but she was smaller than her sister, and not so active.

She slipped off the shiny back two or three times, and when at last she succeeded in getting her feet into the fish's mouth, she slipped down too quickly, and Cherry-Bloom could hear her muffled sobs from within the vase.

She was about to call out "Have you hurt yourself?" when another sound struck her quick ears,—a sound of feet—of heavy, grown-up feet; and in a moment she had uttered one loud "Hush!" for the benefit of her little sister, and crouched down lower in the body of the china dolphin. And now she made a discovery.

There were two holes in the fish—small, round holes, one on each side,