. The one I knew the best of all : a memory of the mind of a child . y mother d trust thee for ahapny. Ah ! gasped the Small Person. The boldness of the suggestion overwhelmedher. She had never dreamed of the possibility ofsuch a thing. Aye, she would, said Emma. Tha couldjust get thy parkin an pay next toime tha had ahapny. A moit o people does that way. Ill goan ax Mother fur thee now. The scheme seemed so gigantic, so far from re-spectable, so fraught with peril. Suppose thatone got a parkin on trust, and never got a half-penny, and ones family were consequently in-volved in eternal dishono
. The one I knew the best of all : a memory of the mind of a child . y mother d trust thee for ahapny. Ah ! gasped the Small Person. The boldness of the suggestion overwhelmedher. She had never dreamed of the possibility ofsuch a thing. Aye, she would, said Emma. Tha couldjust get thy parkin an pay next toime tha had ahapny. A moit o people does that way. Ill goan ax Mother fur thee now. The scheme seemed so gigantic, so far from re-spectable, so fraught with peril. Suppose thatone got a parkin on trust, and never got a half-penny, and ones family were consequently in-volved in eternal dishonor and disaster. Mamma would be angry, she said; shewould not let me do it. Tha neednt say nowt about it, said Emma. This was not actual duplicity, I am stolid rusticity retained its red cheeks likerosy apples, and she hopped about like a cheerfulsparrow. The Back Garden of Eden 37 It was doubtless this serene and matter-of-factunconsciousness of any serious aspect of the mat-ter which had its effect upon the Small Person. \ &e- #r>,i .iv ! •. There is no knowing how long the discussionlasted, or in what manner she was finally per-suaded by prosaic, practical argument that tomake an investment on trust was an every- 38 The One I Knew the Best of All day commercial affair. The end of the matterwas that stress of the moment prevailed andEmma went for the parkin. But the way of the infant transgressor is sense of proportion is as exaggerated in re-gard to mental as to physical objects. As lilacand rhododendron bushes form jungles, and treesreach the sky, so a nursery law defied assumes thestature of a crime, and surrounds itself with hor-ror. I do not think there is a defalcator, an ab-sconding bank president, a criminal of any de-gree, who is beset by such a monster of remorseas beset the Small Person, when her guilt wasso far an accomplished fact that the brown andsticky cake was in her hand. •/ The incident is nothing, but its effect, in its il-lust
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