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What are we, Papa?' the toy Mouse Child asked his father.
Thrown away, then rescued from a dustbin and repaired by a tramp, they set out on a dangerous quest for a family and a place of their own - the magnificent doll's house, the plush elephant and the tin seal they had once know in the toy shop.. '
We must wait and see.'
So begins the story of a tin father and son who dance under a Christmas tree until they break the ancient clockwork rules and are themselves broken. '
I don't know,' the father answered. '
What are we, Papa?' the toy Mouse Child asked his father