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“Is he in the box?”

“Is he under the bed?”

“Is he in the closet?”

“Is he inside the clock?”

″... and by the time they get to buy the item they are looking for, it is 5x more than the money they started out with. They picked out another gift and went home.”

“Hundred of years ago they had climbed through the hills, carrying the few things they owned on their back, looking for somewhere in this strange land that they could claim as their own. They had come from far away, across the sea. They had fought a terrible enemy. On the coast they had heard, from the wandering native people called the Travelers, of a place at the bottom of a forbidden mountain in the high country far inland.”

“As he walked along, he kept his eyes very wide open, looking for somebody to tickle. Looking for anybody to tickle!”

“Try the basket”

“There’s Spot! He’s under the rug.”

“Is he behind the door?”

“Is he under the stairs?”

“The Owl swooped over the mountain, The Owl swooped over the mountain, The Owl swooped over the mountain, To see where Wolf could be. On the other side of the mountain, The other side of the mountain, The other side of the mountain, They had a Jamboree! YIPPEE! ”

“She looked into this book and she looked into that. There was magic for thin and magic for fat, and magic for tall and magic for small, but the magic she was looking for wasn’t there at all.”

Becky longs for a bicycle and Fanso longs to find his father who walked out thirteen years ago.

“I’ve lived in the Home for a long time, all my life, in fact, because my parents couldn’t keep me when I was a baby. No one’s ever told me why, at least, not exactly. Just something about ‘the circumstances were not right.’ I don’t know what that means.”

″‘If you keep looking out for fun,’ the old man said, ‘you will see the Wolves as like as not. Or won’t you?‘”

Mymble says, ‘Quick, let’s go. She’ll bite.’ And Moomintroll says, ‘Yes, quite right. Perhaps your sister’s in this cave?’ They tiptoe in. They must be brave. And find poor little My somehow.”