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"Don't you _wish_ that the other Carews could come to our birthday party? " wistfully said Clary, the only girl among Doctor John Carew's "seven little pickles," as he called them.
"They would come like a shot if Uncle George would allow them, I know," observed Mark, the second Carew boy, with the red hair that was always so handy to fire off a joke about.