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'Neat, like bees, as sweet and busy, / Aired and set to rights the house; / Kneaded cakes of whitest wheat -- / Cakes for dainty mouths to eat. ' / _Goblin Market._
The next few days passed rather slowly for the children. There was no talk of another expedition to the woods. And they had a good many lessons to do, so that short walks in the grounds close round the castle were all they had time for. They only saw the old doctor at meal-times, but he always smiled at them, as if to assure them he was not forgetting them, and to encourage them to patience.