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N ear the house in which Harry and Maia lived there was
a beautiful little spot where they often went to play. The
boughs of sweet-smelling trees stretched above a little opening
in the wood, and after a few ateps along the pathway there
stood on ancient moss-covered building that was always known
as the Children’s Well, Hatty and Maia often wished to
know what was inside this curious old place, and often peeped
into the two round holes that Beemed to be its windows ; but

it was all black darkness within, and they could only hear the
trickling of water as it fell from the roek above. People about
there used to say that there were children who lived at the
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