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At this time he made the plan to pay a visit to the White House quite on / his own account. He put it off till spring, but when spring came he did / not find the necessary courage; he put it off till summer, but even then / all sorts of hindrance came between plan and execution. Once he had seen / a big dog roving alone in the meadow -- who could know whether it might / not be a mad one? and at another time a bull had made straight for him / with his horns lowered.
"Yes; when I am big like my brothers," he consoled himself by thinking, / "and when I go to school, then I'll take a stick and kill the mad dog, / and the bull I'll seize by the horns so that he cannot harm me any / more. " He put it off until next year, for then he was to begin going to / school, just like his big brothers.