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The next morning, Glumdalclitch told me what she had found out.

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"Our neighbor thought you were very rude and he's angry with you.

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He told my father that people would pay him to see you.

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Papa is going to take you to town on the next market day and put you on display."

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She was crying now.

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"People will stare at you."

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"Hmm," I said, "perhaps nothing bad will happen."

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"But what if people hurt you or drop you?" she said.

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"Papa told me you were mine, but now he wants to show you off to get money.

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It's just like what he did last year when he gave me a lamb."

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She cried harder.

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"What happened?" I asked nervously.

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"I cared for the lamb, and it grew into a fine, fat sheep.

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Then Papa sold it to the butcher."

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She sobbed unhappily at the memory of her lost pet lamb.

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But I was not quite as worried as Glumdalclitch.

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And I still had hope that one day I would be free again.

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On market day, my master put me in a box.

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It had an opening for a door and some holes in the top to let in air.

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I remembered keeping a frog in a similar box when I was a little boy.

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"How strange to be treated like a captive frog," I said to myself.

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My master put Glumdalclitch on his horse and got on in front of her.

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"Hold the box tightly. Don't drop it!"

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he told her as we set off for the town.

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As the horse trotted along, I was bounced around violently.

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I felt as if I were on a ship in a very bad storm.

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But soon we arrived at the hotel where my master stayed on market days.

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"I want to rent your largest meeting room," he said to the hotel man.

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"I will have many guests tonight."

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My master hired a man to spread the word about the strange creature that would be on show at the hotel that night.

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"Come and see the tiny man!" this man shouted in the streets.

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"It walks, it talks, but it's only the size of a small doll!"

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Many people came to the hotel that evening.

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My master put me on the table in the meeting room.

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"Glumdalclitch," he said to his daughter, "make Grildig show the people what he can do."

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"I'm sorry," she whispered to me, "but please do what my father wants."

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She sat nearby while I bowed to the crowd.

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"I'm delighted to meet you all," I said.

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I walked about and answered the people's questions in a loud voice.

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They clapped and cheered when I pulled out my sword and pretended to fight.

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My master let only thirty people into the room at a time so that all could see me well.

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I performed for 12 groups that night, and everyone paid my master for the show.

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He watched the people carefully and would not let anyone touch me.

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I was valuable to him, so he did not want me to get hurt.

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Throughout the evening, the crowd outside the hotel grew.

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"Come again on the next market day.

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Send your friends," my master told the people.

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I was so exhausted after the last show that I could hardly stand up.

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The next day, we went home, and after three days I began to feel a little better.

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But even at the farmer's house, people demanded to see me.

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My master got more and more money, and I got more and more tired.