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_Children._ "Here are the nails, and may we help? / _Jessie._ You shall if I should want help. / _Children._ Will you want it then? / Please want it -- we like helping."
There was no one in the nursery, fortunately for Ted's plans. _Un_fortunately rather, we should perhaps say, for if nurse had been there, she would have asked for what he wanted the little bottle which had held the cod-liver oil, that he had lately left off taking, but of which a few drops still remained.