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All of a sudden, as the Trippertrot children were riding along on their funny horses, which had just galloped up out of the water to the dry land -- all of a sudden, I say -- Mary happened to look behind her, and there was Ivy Vine, the cat, running after them as fast as she could run, and her tail was sticking straight up in the air, like a clothes-post.
"Oh, look! " cried Mary. "Ivy Vine is coming, and she may get lost!"