Marionette?" said the owner of the
toy-shop to the little girl that same evening. "Very well, Molly, you
shall have her."

"Oh, thank you, Auntie!" replied her little niece with much gratitude.

"There is not very much to thank me for," remarked her aunt. "She is not
worth anything now. I can't imagine," she added, "how it is that she has
got so knocked about."

Now the little girl had no need to imagine it, for she knew. But she
kept her knowledge to herself, fearing that if she told her Aunt what
had happened she would be laughed at as a fanciful child.

But we should not have laughed at her,--should we? There would have been
no fancy at out the matter for us. For _we_ know that the Toy World is a
very real World indeed!

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