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33 26 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
the table, and there lay a big book open, and
a little one by its side, and on a side table were
loaves, and buns, and cakes, one for each of
the family. There was also something else,
yes, a tiny car on the table, and something that
looked like a pigmy, a little woman in a chair,
perhaps a fairy. These were very likely
playthings for the children,—ah, and there were the
children themselves. I wondered long if that
was Anna in a short dark skirt, scarlet bodice,
and white sleeves. I should have so liked to
give her a loving hug. Her pretty little rosy
face was half hidden in a scarlet close-fitting
hood, and her little legs, attired in scarlet
stockings, and her feet in heavy shoes, were
crossed in front of her. I had raised myself
on my hind-legs, a little way from the window,
to see all this, but now I went nearer, so that
I could hear her speak, and then I should
recognise her voice. I raised myself against
the window, my nose pressing close against
the glass pane. Little Anna still sat on her
stool, with her hands folded, looking with
intense delight at the Christmas tree. The
father, a tall, soldier-like man, sat at the little
table with the big book, into which he had been
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