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the day of "Scenes in the Village on the Occasion of Miss Barbara's Sixth Birthday" and he only had two left when he came to the house. One was "A Corner of the Stables Taken from the North Side of the Lake," and the other was "Miss Barbara Entertains a Few Friends to Tea, reading from left to right."
Barbara said, "Oh!"
Susan said, "Well, I don't mind, because it's not my birthday."
Helen said, "It was the man's fault for taking all those ones in the village."
Susan said, "My birthday's on April the Fifteenth and I'm five and Henry's three and his birthday's the same day as mine, isn't that funny?"
And Barbara said, "Well, I know I'm six."
Then they all began to eat again.
But if Barbara was six, where was the
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