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One very windy day the three little Trippertrots were up in the playroom of their house, looking out of the window and wondering what they could do to have a good time.
"Now I do hope you children will not run off anywhere to-day," their mamma had said to them as she went downtown to the five-and-ten-cent store to buy a new fur coat -- excuse me, I meant a dipper. "Please stay in the house unless something special, extra-extraordinary happens."