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For a few seconds after he had opened the door and spoken to the Trippertrot children, the queer little old man didn't say anything more. He just stood there, bowing all the while, just like the pendulum of the clock, only he went up and down, and the pendulum in the clock goes sideways, you see.
"Well, are you coming along, children? " said the nice little old man, after a while, and he stopped bowing.