. The black aunt. Stories and legends for children . something wastrying to jump up and reach the door latch. She keptstill and listened, and at last the latch was raised, andby the light of the fire she saw a gaily dressed little fel-low come in with white trowsers on, red jacket, pointedhat, yellow pointed shoes and the little bells at the toestinkled gently at every one of the cautious steps which hemade. In fact it was Johnny from the booth. He lookedaround every where and at last went up to Maggies he clapped his little hands for joy and said with alittle voice: «Ah, dear Maggie,
. The black aunt. Stories and legends for children . something wastrying to jump up and reach the door latch. She keptstill and listened, and at last the latch was raised, andby the light of the fire she saw a gaily dressed little fel-low come in with white trowsers on, red jacket, pointedhat, yellow pointed shoes and the little bells at the toestinkled gently at every one of the cautious steps which hemade. In fact it was Johnny from the booth. He lookedaround every where and at last went up to Maggies he clapped his little hands for joy and said with alittle voice: «Ah, dear Maggie, have I found you atlast? If you only knew how long the time has seemed inthe booth without you. Oh I wish the gentleman hadtaken me too so that wTe might not have been parted!»— «Johnny, my dear Johnny,» — Maggie softly an- 24 swered, «is it really you?» Come, sit down on the bedand tell me how you got here.» Then Johnny sat downon the edge of the bed looked around timidly again, andtold in a low voice how he had heard and noticed that. the gentleman who had bought his dear Maggie lived inthe great house on the corner of the street. Then hevated very impatiently till evening in order to steal outof the booth unnoticed when the trader went out andshut it up. But when the moment arrived, as he wasabout to get down from the table he fell and the bells onhis shoes began to tinkle. The trader heard this andpicked him up and put him on the table again, and thenshut up the booth. After that he was very lonely 25 without Maggie, till suddenly he saw the moon shiningthrough a great knot hole in the side of the booth. Thenhe climbed up very quickly to the hole and by good luckgot out at it and made his way into the street. Thenhe stole along in the shadow of the booth till he cameto the house and was overjoyed because he found theright room at once. At this Maggie took Johnny tenderlyby the hand and said: «Oh you good Johnny how I wishthat we could always stay with each othe
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