But long after they’d gone to their leaves, Belinda stood guard over them and thought to herself, “I wish I could stop them ever going out of our tunnels again! I wish I could keep them from danger!” But she knew she couldn’t. Centis will be centis and there wasn’t a thing she could do about it.
“Who would be a mother?” she thought. And then answered, “I would …”
And she gave them both a centipede kiss and went contentedly to sleep.
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Harry the Poisonous Centipede Goes to Sea
The Indian in the Cupboard
Return of the Indian
The Mystery of the Cupboard
The Secret of the Indian
The Key to the Indian
Alice by Accident
Angela and Diabola
The Dungeon
Stealing Stacey
Tiger Tiger
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