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"How many miles to Babylon? Three score and ten! Can I get there by candle light? Yes, and back again! "
Jane was singing to her doll, rocking it to and fro in the house which she had made for herself and it. The roof of the house was the dining-table, and the walls were tablecloths and antimacassars hanging all round, and kept in their places by books laid on their top ends at the table edge.