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THE SONG OF THE ANGELS.
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THE SONG OF THE ANGELS. 235 knife could be seen. "Have you got it, Alfred?" asked Samuel, jumping up, come, do cut my notches, because I cannot get on the island and begin to play until it is done." "I cannot do it, Samuel, I have not got my knife." "Where is your knife, then, my dear? I saw you put it carefully away in a box one day." "Yes, I did, aunt, but I have just dropped it into a crack in the hall, and it is gone out of sight." "Oh, dear, let us try to get it," said the kind aunt, and away they all three ran to the crack in the passage. "Show me ex- actly the place where it went in, Alfred." Digitized by Google
