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"With bolted doors and windows wedged, / The care was all in vain; / For there were noises in the night / Which nothing could explain. " / GRANDMAMMA AND THE FAIRIES
The children had gone quietly to bed the evening before when grandmother had finished the reading of her story. They just kissed her and said, "Thank you, _dear_ grandmother," and that was all. But it was all she wanted.