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"SHOUL-DER arms!" said Dick. "For-ward, march!" If you had been in the
room next to the hall where the chil-dren were play-ing that rain-y day,
you would have thought that an ar-my was march-ing back and forth, they
made such a noise. Then, all at once, the noise stopped. "The ar-my will
lie down, and go to sleep for the night," said Dick. The ar-my lay down
to play sleep, and in a twin-kling it fell in-to a real sleep. Ev-er-y
man was in the land of Nod. Jane, who had been out to the barn for a
bas-ket of ap-ples, was so sur-prised at the sight, that three great red
ones fell out on the floor be-fore she could catch them. Just at that
mo-ment the boys' eyes o-pened, and they had the ap-ples in less than no
time.
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