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And that is how Stomach came into the
house.
It was the liveliest, most mischievous monkey
you can imagine. It stayed most of the time
in Uncle Ferdinand’s office. Up and down the
book-shelves it elimbed, just like a squirrel;
now and then it threw itself across the room
from one bookcase to another. One time it
sprang straight onto the big lamp that hung
from the ceiling, and made the ehimney and
shade come down in jingling fragments.
Stomach hung from one of the chains,
miserable and screaming with fright. This
per-formance it never repeated.
Stomach loved nothing in the world so much
as matches. Whenever it got hold of a box of
matches it was over joy ed, and immediately
elimbed up on the highest bookcase. Here it
sat and tossed the matches one by one down on
the carpet. When it grew tired of this it flung
the whole box, aiming with amazing success
right at the top of Uncle Ferdinand’s head.
Uncle Ferdinand always sat patiently waiting
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