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THE END OF A GOLDEN DREAM
The marionette, returning to town, counted the minutes one by one. When he thought it was time to go back he took the road that led to the Field of Wonders, and as he walked along his heart beat like a big hall clock-tic-toc-tic-toc. "What if I should find five thousand instead of two!" he thought to himself. What if I should find a hundred thousand instead of five! Oh what a lord I should be then! I would have a palace and a thousand wooden horses and carriages to amuse me, a library filled with candy, tarts, plum cakes, almond cakes, macaroons and cinnamon sticks."
