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By Mary Norton

Imprisoned in an attic by means of a grasping couple who are looking to use them as performers, the debtors get away via balloon.

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I take my hat off to you, Mabel, for courage and initiative. You're a wonderful woman," he said. "Thank you, dear," said Mrs. Platter. " said Mr. Platter in a suddenly businesslike voice. He took off his rimless glasses and thoughtfully began polishing them. " "It's simple," said Mrs. Platter. " "I realize that," said Mr. Platter with a kind of aloof patience. He put his rimless glasses back on his nose, returned the handkerchief to his pocket, leaned back in his chair, and with the fingers of his right hand drummed lightly on the table.

He bought two railway stations, both exactly alike, but far more modern than the railway station at Little Fordham. Experts came down from London to install his signal boxes and to adjust his lines and points. It was all done in less than three months. And it worked. " And the people poured in. Mr. Platter had to clear a field and face it with rubble for parking the motorcars. In addition to the "set teas," it cost a shilling to cross the bridge and visit the railway. Halfway through the summer, the paths on the island became worn down, and he refaced them with asphalt and built a second bridge to keep people moving.

The badger itself escaped unharmed. The Railway Benevolent were very generous. They gave Mr. Pott a small lump sum and found him a cottage just outside the village, where three tall poplar trees stood beside a stream. It was here, on a mound in his garden, that he started his model railway. First, he bought at second hand a set of model trains. He saw them advertised in a local paper with the electric battery on which to run them. Because there was no room large enough in his tiny cottage, he set up the lines in his garden.

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