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"You'll learn
them when you get farther with your lessons. They own most all the money,
and the finest houses, and _all the people_. Just _own_ them. Own them
so's they can tell good friends to go to it, and _kill_ each other, even
_relations_."
"And do they _do_ it?" marvelled Peaches.
"Sure they do it!" cried Mickey. "Why they are doing it _right now!_ I
could bring a paper and read you things that would make you so sick you
couldn't sit up!"
"What kind of things, Mickey?"
"About kings making all the fathers kill each other, and burn down each
other's houses, and blow up the cities, and eat all the food themselves,
and leave the mothers with no home, and no groceries, and no stove, and no
beds, and the bullets flying, and the cities burning, and no place to go,
and the children starving and dying--Gee, I ain't ever going to tell you
any more, Lily! It's too awful! You'd feel better not to know. Honest you
would! Wish I hadn't told you anything about it at all. Where's your
slate? We got to do lessons 'fore it gets so dark and we are so sleepy we
can't see.


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