St Nicholas [serial] . ere in snowy bloom underradiant blue skies, the streets and parks werefull of people who seemed to have nothing to dobut to enjoy themselves, while so many morewere going about in the carriages and cabs andomnibuses which crowded the driveways thatMargaret thought no one could be left indoors. Now and theri, when Mr. Lindsay had a dayto spare, all three went for an excursion outsideof the city to see the wonderful palaces of Ver-sailles or Fontainebleau, or to picnic in the woodsat On other days Margaret and hermother visited the museums and picture-galleriesa
St Nicholas [serial] . ere in snowy bloom underradiant blue skies, the streets and parks werefull of people who seemed to have nothing to dobut to enjoy themselves, while so many morewere going about in the carriages and cabs andomnibuses which crowded the driveways thatMargaret thought no one could be left indoors. Now and theri, when Mr. Lindsay had a dayto spare, all three went for an excursion outsideof the city to see the wonderful palaces of Ver-sailles or Fontainebleau, or to picnic in the woodsat On other days Margaret and hermother visited the museums and picture-galleriesand places where such interesting things hadhappened that, as her mother told her about them,Margaret felt as though she were walkingthrough the pages of a fascinating 24 But sometimes she found the museums just abit dull for a little girl of eight, and one day,as they sat resting in one of the long picture-galleries of the Louvre, she asked a littlewistfully, Are museums always made just for. READY FOR THE WEDDING-TRIP, LA MARTYRE,FINISTERE. grown-up people, Mother? There are so many Ishould think there might be one for children. A visitor standing near had evidently over-heard the question for she turned to them with 242 A CURIOUS MUSEUM [Jan, a charming smile, and said, addressing in English, but with the prettiest imag-inable accent: If Madame will permit me, / cantell her of such a musee in Paris, but very fewvisitors find it. At 41 Rue Gay Lussac, not farfrom the Luxembourg Garden, is the Musee de?Poupees—the Museum of the Dolls, she ex-plained to Margaret, who was listening are very kind to answer my daughters
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