"Get into line!" he said. "Get into line! They are entering the hall—their Royal Highnesses, the Noah's Ark Rabbits!"

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CHAPTER THREE

BARTY'S eyes grew round and big with excitement. A wonderful procession was entering the hall. First came a band of tiny jet black monkeys playing on golden trumpet's—the Drum Major walking backward before them and twirling his staff; then came two black and two white rabbits, and they were carrying a throne on which sat

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