. In happy far-away land . as combing Lucys hair, hewhispered in the little girls ear, till shetwisted her head this way and that, makingit hard work for the comb to straighten outthe tangles, so that Lucys hair was pulled andshe cried. When Tommy Tucker tuned his guitar, Grumps whispered his unlovely thoughts in the boys ear, and Tommy, in a pet, twisted the key so impatiently that the guitar string broke with a snap. Grumps stood at King Coles elbow, and made the good king drop great blots of ink on the letter he was writing, and speak almost harshly to Queen Anne. He puckered Bessy Bells fo
. In happy far-away land . as combing Lucys hair, hewhispered in the little girls ear, till shetwisted her head this way and that, makingit hard work for the comb to straighten outthe tangles, so that Lucys hair was pulled andshe cried. When Tommy Tucker tuned his guitar, Grumps whispered his unlovely thoughts in the boys ear, and Tommy, in a pet, twisted the key so impatiently that the guitar string broke with a snap. Grumps stood at King Coles elbow, and made the good king drop great blots of ink on the letter he was writing, and speak almost harshly to Queen Anne. He puckered Bessy Bells forehead into unhappy frowns, and made her throw down her les-son-books and pout ill-naturedly. He went here and there all over the land, leaving unhappy faces wherever he went, making people impatient over little things, till everybody said that everybody else was cross, and a word never before heard in Far Away Land began to be spoken. It was the word grumpy, and you could not have met five persons in a days walk, who were.
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