. In happy far-away land . r replied. I have no penny, said Simon, and looked greatly disappointed. Lucy remembered the two new pennies in her pocket. I have two pennies, said she, so Simon can have a pie, and I canhave one, too. No sooner had she paid her pennies to the baker, than she thought ofhow she had meant to buy something for her father and mother with them,and then she remembered that she had disobeyed her father, for he hadtold her to stay at Dame Trots shop till he came for her. It was quite late in the afternoon, but she thought that by hurrying shecould reach home before dark. So
. In happy far-away land . r replied. I have no penny, said Simon, and looked greatly disappointed. Lucy remembered the two new pennies in her pocket. I have two pennies, said she, so Simon can have a pie, and I canhave one, too. No sooner had she paid her pennies to the baker, than she thought ofhow she had meant to buy something for her father and mother with them,and then she remembered that she had disobeyed her father, for he hadtold her to stay at Dame Trots shop till he came for her. It was quite late in the afternoon, but she thought that by hurrying shecould reach home before dark. So scarcely waiting to say good-by to Simon,she hurried off. She did not 2:0 bv the road which led back to the town, but O * chose another road which she thought would be the shorter way. Home was a long way off, and Lucy was a very little girl to run so she had orone a mile the sun went down, and it beean to STOW dark. o & She heard the birds twitter as they settled themselves to sleep in their snug. OFF THEY RAN, DANCING AND PRANCING 68 LUCY LOCKET little nests, and at every farm-yard she passed the mother hens were takingtheir children to roost. By and by the frogs began to sing, or at least Lucyalways called their croaking singing, for she knew that they would feel muchdisappointed if they knew Far Away Land folk didnt think they had fine a bird began to cry out, faraway, Whip-poor-Will! Whip-poor-Will ! and Lucy thought he was a very cruel bird, indeed, to want poor Willwhipped, for in Far Away Land, where parents are very wise, children arealmost never whipped. Presently the katydids began to dispute, and Lucyfelt at first greatly ashamed, for she was afraid they would begin to tell aboutLucy, instead of saying, over and over: Katy-did ! Katy-didnt ! Katy-did !She did ! She didnt ! She did ! She wondered what Katy really had done, as she went on and on, and itgrew darker and darker. She knew her father and mother would not knowwhere she was, and she b
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