Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880 · New York : Clark Austin & co. · leaf 201
196 THE GIRLS OWN BOOK. Ann. He looks like a real boy; but I think the horse looksclumsy. Aunt. That is because he is a wooden horse, with jointedlegs. You cannot expect him to canter quite as well as a realhorse. Here is another of the figures, called the Marksman of … Madrid. With a pistol no bigger than your thumb, he aimedat a little bird, on a post. The pistol went off with real fireand smoke, and the bird fell down dead. Another was a famous Vaulter. He jumped over standards,
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