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sturdy little dark creature as Honey-Boy e you for a irls now," Lulu addressed hih, that the next one will be a girl"

"I want a girl, too," Clara re"

Clara had not been happy at the prospect of her first maternity, but she

was jubilant over her second

"It will be nice for Angela, too," Peachy said, to have soirl

to play with Coela flen fro up

the beach Once or twice, for no apparent reason, her wings fell dead,

sagged for a few moments; then her little pink, shell-like feet would

pad helplessly on the sand Twice she dropped her pinions deliberately;

once to cli root, once to ela!" Peachy called sharply at these tiela stopped, waited until the strength flowed

into her wings, started again She reached the group of ht, but a co Peachy arose, balanced herself, caught her little daughter

in midair, kissed her The wo her