"She took the teapot, went into the garden, picked some clover leaves and put them in the teapot; then she went and got some water from the plate where her mum's dog was putting some, and poured it into the teapot." Illustration from "Les malheurs de Sophie", written by the Countess of Ségur in 1858. 1880 edition illustrated by Horace Castelli and published by Hachette.

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