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    THE NUTCRACKER ; SECOND FANTASY PIECE AFTER HOFFMAN

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    Chapter I . —New Tear ' s Day . On a certain New Year ' s Day the children of Dr . Smallhorse were expressly forbidden to enter the front drawing-room . When the evening closed in , Frederick and Mary sat , in the dark , in a corner of the little back room , and Frederick , speaking very low and mysteriously , informed Mary , his younger sister , who was nearly seven years old , that

    he had heard strange noises in the locked-up chamber , and that he had seen a little black man glide out from the door , who he believed was no other than godpapa Pivot . At this communication Mary , transported with joy , clapped her little hands together and cried : ' Oh ! dear me how I should like to know what pretty thing godpapa Pivot has got for us . '

    Mr . Pivot , commissioner of something or other , was not a very handsome man ; he was small and thin ; his face much wrinkled ; the locality of his right eye covered with a great black patch ; and , having no hair , he wore a splendid , patent , white periwig . But godpapa was a very ingenious man ; he understood watchwork , and it was said could

    even make watches . Indeed when any of Dr . Smallhorse ' s pretty clocks were out of order , godpapa Pivot came , took off his periwig , put on a little cap , girded himself with an apron , and poked into their insides with pointed instruments , to the great apprehension of little Mary ; but , certainly , they were all the better for the operation , and began again to tick , and strike , and play , to the satisfaction of every one . Whenever he visited Dr . Small horse , he had in his pocket some prettv thing for the children ; sometimes a little man , who rolled his eyes , and made the finest bows possible ; sometimes a snuff-box , out of which popped a bird . But at the new year , Mr . Pivot always made for them

    something particularly fine and ingenious . 4 How I should like to know what pretty thing godpapa Pivot has got for us / said Mary . Frederick thought it would be a grand and imposing fortress , on which might be seen the soldiers guarding and exercising ; afterwards the enemy would assault it , but the garrison would fire the cannon bravely , and kick up a devil of a row . No , no , ' interrupted Mary , godpapa Pivot has spoken to me about a beautiful garden , with a piece of water , in which swim magnificent swans , which have gold collars , and sing pretty tunes ; then comes a nice little girl who calls them to her , and feeds them with bonbons . *

    * Swans don ' t eat bonbons ^ said Frederick , rather impatiently , ' and I don ' t believe godpapa Pivot could make a garden ; and , after all , I

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    No . 97 . C

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    ffiBLti ) vtf ) tn fur grosse unfc ftleine Iftintrer ! Tales for great and small children 1

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/9/