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The Hobyahs
ONCE there was an old man and woman and a little girl, and they all lived in a house made of hempstalks. Now the old man had a little dog named Turpie; and one night the Hobyahs came and said, "Hobyah! Hobyah! Hobyah! Tear down the hempstalks, eat up the old man and woman, and carry off the
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little girl!" But little dog Turpie barked so, that the Hobyahs ran off; and the old man said, "Little dog
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