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Chapter Three


tiently, “for we're locked in good and tight.”

“That’s so,” sighed the Patchwork Girl, pressing her cotton nose to the window bars. “They’ll have to break down the door.”

“Sounds as if they had,” sputtered the little bear, as a terrible crash sounded from the hallway. ‘Here they come!” Jumping head first into the chest Grumpy pulled down the lid.

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