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When Mrs. Trippertrot looked out of her window and saw her three children, and Mr. Johnson, the man who owned the automobile, and Fido the dog, and Ivy Vine the cat, and Fuzzo the monkey -- to say nothing of the hand-organ man -- when she saw all of them in front of her house she didn't know what to think.
"Oh, my dear children! " she cried. "I have been looking everywhere for you! Where have you been?"