Beatrix Potter Books

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	But while Ribby had been hunting for the doctor—a curious thing had happened to Duchess, who had been left by herself, sitting before the fire, sighing and groaning and feeling very unhappy. "How could I have swallowed it! such a large thing as a patty-pan!" She got up and went to the table, and felt inside the pie-dish again with a spoon. "No; there is no patty-pan, and I put one in; and nobody has eaten pie except me, so I must have swallowed it!"