Maggie Beed

    tartling object tle Lucy,  to -cro and discoloured  tiny blackened eous face. to account for ted apparition in aunt Pullets parlour,  return to t o play out of doors and taken possession of Maggies soul at an early period of turned in all ter force after a temporary absence. All tions of tom,  o toads ence. Seeing t a distance looking like a small Medusa urally pleased t cousin tom o  o see ickling a fat toad ring ing over ill Lucy acle also, especially as sless find a name for toad and say ories about t -  o t copper, for o fetcor. tom empt for t once as a superfluous yet easy means of proving tire unreality of sucory; but Lucy, for t , and at all events t it ty make-believe. So noo knoory of a very portly toad, added to ual affectionateness, made o Maggie and say, `O, toad, Maggie! Do come and see. Maggie said not turned ao prefer Lucy to  of  a little y little Lucy, any more to a little  tom e indifferent to Lucy before, and it  to Maggie to pet and make muc o t so make Lucy cry, by slapping or pinc migom, o slap even if s mind it. And if Lucy  been t friends h her sooner.

    tickling a fat toad  t it is possible to ex, and tom by-and-by began to look round for some otime. But in so prim a garden o go off t a great c. t pleasure sucriction allo, and tom began to meditate an insurrectionary visit to t a fields lengthe garden.

    `I say, Lucy,  significance as ring again. ` do you to do?

    `, tom? said Lucy, y.

    `I mean to go to t tan.

    `O, tom, dare you? said Lucy. `Aunt said nt go out of the garden.

    `O, I s at tom. `Nobody ull see us. Besides I dont care if they do - Ill run off home.

    `But I couldnt run, said Lucy, ation.

    `O, never mind - t be cross om. `You say I took you.

    tom rotted by imidly enjoying treat of doing somety - excited also by tion of t celebrity, t ain  to folloo lose sigs t tom and Lucy s o Maggie. So s a feceresting monster - o be so very old, so very large, and to ite. ties did not sc tom caug of somet in ter ed o anot on the pond.

    `ake care! Keep on t step o a peninsula of dry grass, rodden mud on eac; for toms contemptuous conception of a girl included ttribute of being unfit to y places.

    Lucy came carefully as s doo look at er. It er-snake, tom told  last could see tine s body, very muc a snake could s too, t ter to om did not care about . At last, som,  notice it till urned round and said,

    `No ao come.

    t  t moment to ragedy, if tragedies  tial Greek ord ing to tion; tmost Maggie could do,  of o pustle pink-and-o trodden mud.

    tom could not restrain  slaps on to pick up Lucy, ed to ts of a tree a feently. Usually ance came quickly after one ras noom and Lucy o spoil to make everybody uncomfortable. om o forgive  have been.

    `I sell motom, loudly and empically, as soon as Lucy o   toms practice to `tell, but ice clearly demanded t Maggie sed most punis: not t tom  to put  abstract form; ioned `justice, and  o punis be called by t fine name. Lucy oo entirely absorbed by t ty best clot of being  and dirty - to tirely mysterious to  so make Maggie angry  s t Maggie reaties to tom t  `tell, only running along by eously, s of tree and looked after th her small Medusa face.

    `Sally, said tom, ter in oasting-fork in ell mot he mud.

    `But Lors  near suc? said Sally, making a i.

    toms imagination  been rapid and capacious enougo include tion among t it  t tended, and t Maggie  be considered t in tly aco t pleasure of guessing oriously prefer to ready-made knowledge.

    Sally, as you are a no time in presenting Lucy at to y an object introduced into t Garum Firs oo great a ained by a single mind.

    `Goodness gracious! aunt Pullet exclaimed after preluding by an inarticulate scream. `Keep  t bring ever you do.

    `umbled into some nasty mud, said Mrs tulliver, going up to Lucy to examine into t of damage to clot o er Deane.

    `If you please, um, it oms been and said so. And t o ts only t into suc.

    `t is, Bessy - its elling you, said Mrs Pullet, in a tone of propic sadness, `its your c to.

    Mrs tulliver e, feeling ruly c pressed upon  people o deserve ernal troubles, o give elaborate directions to Sally o guard t. Meantime tea o be broug out to speak to ty co be close at  it  until after some searc som leaning  te paling of try yard, and loing turkey cock.

    `tom, you nauger? said Mrs tulliver, in a distressed voice.

    `I dont knoom. ice on Maggie  it could  about  tice of some blame on .

    `her, looking round.

    `Sitting under tree against tom, apparently indifferent to everyt tring and turkey cock.

    `tce, you naugo taking your sister w? You know so be done.

    It ullivers o refer o Maggie.

    tting alone by tual fear in Mrs tullivers mind, and sed to satisfy  of t fatal com  very quickly - on owards her.

    `ter, mine are, s reflecting t to  in dead and drownded some day. I wis river was far enough.

    But o discern Maggie, but presently saom returning from tered and took complete possession of o meet him.

    `Maggies noom, `shes gone away.

    You may conceive terrified searcy of convincing  s in t observed, t t come to a  of tea deferred and try alarmed by to and fro - took up rument of searco unlock to lie perdue in.

    tom, after a ed t Maggie  necessary to state t it ion  by her.

    `Sister, for goodness sake, let em put take me   t innocent victim,  on the sofa.

    Aunt Pullet e o take test means of restoring o order and quiet, and it  long before Mrs tulliver  t distant point before  t? ion t predominated over every other.