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The Railway Children by E. Nesbit

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Mother, Mother, Are You Hurt?

Peter was looking too disagreeable and sulting. Take the horrid rake then was the best she could manage. And she suddenly let go her hold on the handle. Peter had been holding on to it too firmly and pullingly. He staggered and fell over backwards, the teeth of the rake between his feet serve you right? Said bobby. Before she could stop herself, peter lay still for half a moment,. enough to frighten bobby a little. Then he sat up, screamed once, turned rather pale, and then lay back and began to shriek, faintly but steadily. A quarter of a mile off. It sounded exactly like a pig being killed.

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