e it, that the cake was done on the stroke ofone, just as he had promised, and he had scarcelytaken it out of the oven when the shop door flewopen, and in came the McMulligan children,every one of them saying: The clock has struck one. The clock has struck one.We waited to hear it - and is the cake… … The Baker himself said it was a beautiful cake am at the McMulligans on Christmas day, Isure you would have thought so too. Joseph carried it home, walking very slowlyand carefully, and all the other children followedhim, out of the Bakers shop, down the sidewalk,straight home where Mrs. McMulligan…
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