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"Something I can do for you? " asked Mrs. Clark, "all in a flutter," she / said afterward to her neighbor, Mrs. Elkton, who kept a little grocery / store. "The idea," said Mrs. Clark, "of a rich gentleman like him / walking into my poor little place!"
"That Woolly Dog in your window," answered Mr. Blakeley. "I'll take it. / My nephew's birthday," he added, with a smile. Perhaps he thought if he / didn't say this that Mrs. Clark might think he wanted the Woolly Dog / for himself. "Wrap it up, please."