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    The Toy Shop A Romantic Story of Lincoln the Man
    The Toy Shop A Romantic Story of Lincoln the Man
    The Toy Shop A Romantic Story of Lincoln the Man
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    The Toy Shop A Romantic Story of Lincoln the Man

    By Margarita Spalding Gerry

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Toy Shop A Romantic Story of Lincoln the Man - Margarita Spalding Gerry

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Toy Shop, by Margarita Spalding Gerry

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      Title: The Toy Shop

             A Romantic Story of Lincoln the Man

      Author: Margarita Spalding Gerry

      Release Date: May 28, 2012 [EBook #39829]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TOY SHOP ***

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      THE MAN WAS LEAVING HIS OWN FRONT DOOR

      The TOY SHOP

      A Romantic Story of Lincoln the Man

      BY

      MARGARITA SPALDING GERRY

      HARPER & BROTHERS

      NEW YORK AND LONDON
      MCMVIII

      Copyright, 1908, by Harper & Brothers.

      All rights reserved.

      Published September, 1908.

      The child is eternal, and so are toys and tears and laughter. When the house is put in order by strange men, when the clothes that were worn and the tools that were used are put away, there will be found an upper room full of toys. These remain.

      THE TOY-SHOP

      HE Man was leaving his own front door. On the steps he paused and looked sombrely back. The white pillars of the facade rose before him in stately fashion. They reminded him of the care he was evading for the moment, and he sighed. Though he shut his eyes determinedly, he knew that another grim building just beyond, the usual end of his journeying, demanded him, and he sighed again. This time there was something more than weariness in the sound.

      From around the corner of the house, which almost hid from view the white tents of the Home Guard, ran a child. He was bright-faced, and magnificent in a miniature officer's uniform.

      Oh, papa-day! he cried. Never mind the curtains for my stage. You are always too busy now to see my plays, anyway—! He interrupted himself to fling this in petulantly: But get lots of soldiers—and one company of cavalry. I can't get him surrounded without two more companies—and six cannon!

      The child lisped so in his eagerness that no one but his father could have understood him, and his father was so lost in his gloomy thought that he did not know the child had spoken. When the expected reply did not come, the boy looked his wonder.

      Papa-day—papa-day! he cried, giving the man a little push. I want some soldiers!

      Startled out of his sadness, the father looked at the child.

      Soldiers? All right, son; I'm off for a walk now. I saw a shop the other day.

      He walked off. It

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