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Porta Rosa, and the boy found he had slipped nearly off its back. Fear and trembling came upon him as he thought of his mother; she had sent him out the day before to get some money, he had not done so, and now he was hungry and thirsty. Once more he clasped the neck of his metal horse, kissed its nose, and nodded farewell to it. �

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Other members of the staff seemed oddly tense too.

suffered and endured and raised yourself to the spirit-world by your

ceased, and the moon shone in upon him through the windows. Then he saw an open coffin standing in the centre of the church, which

143 to a stuttering halt. Nobody moves, nobody speaks. Everybody 143