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Title: Peter Poodle,: toy maker to the king
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bradley, Will
Subjects: Toymakers--Juvenile fiction Toys--Juvenile fiction Kings and rulers--Juvenile fiction Courts and courtiers--Juvenile fiction.
Publisher: New York,: Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries with support from LYRASIS and the Sloan Foundation

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ree cats; indeed, it soundedeven worse. Hold! cried King Tommy, as he placed a finger ineach ear. Stop, stop, we have had enough of that music!If there is no other tune you can play better than this one,you had best be going, for we cant stand any more. There is another tune we can play! cried the big one;and quick as a wink he and the other two threw awaytheir horns and thrust their hands under their coats. Now what tune it was the three Musicians were goingto play, I can do no more than guess; for no sooner didthey get their hands inside their coats, than around thecorner of a booth came Rolie Polie, driving his little donkeyin a white and red chariot. The tooting of the horns hadbeen too much for the donkey, and now the little clowncould do nothing to check its wild gallop as it tore past thepeople and straight towards the three Musicians. One loudbray it gave; then a kick to the right and another to theleft, and down went all three Musicians tumbling heelsover head in the dust. 76
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<£top! Musicians, did I say? Well, they were musicians nolonger, for beneath the torn and tumbled coat of eachthere might now be seen a broad belt holding big pistolsand a keen edged cutlass. The three Buccaneers from Grumble town! yelled theMayor. Capture them quickly! Big Bill was on his feet in a moment. We are discov-ered, we are discovered! he cried. Every man run forhis life! Hardly were these -words off his tongue, when thethree -were scurrying across the park and had no soonerreached the Arch of Welcome, than two of them boundedto the back of Coal Black, while Big Bill jumped into thesaddle of Snow White, and away they rode like the wind. The captain and soldiers followed quickly, but therewas no chance of the Buccaneers being overtaken, fornot a horse in Toyville could ever catch Coal Black andSnow White, even with Coal Black carrying double. Which way did the Buccaneers ride? asked Tommyof the captain as soon as the soldiers returned. Vour Majesty, answered the captain,

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