. A second day in Mary Carrow's school. l my littlescholars? You cannot all be Blindman Buffat once; so I will take the oldest Linn was the oldest scholar; andafter Mary had bound her handkerchief overhis eyes, he could not see any thing at put out his hands, and felt about theroom, and at last he caught little Ellen was so much delighted, and laughed somerrily to see how queer Charles looked, that 28 A SECOND DAY IN he knew by the sound of her voice where tofind her. Carry Deacon came up to Maryand looked as if she wanted to say somethingto her, and as if she d
. A second day in Mary Carrow's school. l my littlescholars? You cannot all be Blindman Buffat once; so I will take the oldest Linn was the oldest scholar; andafter Mary had bound her handkerchief overhis eyes, he could not see any thing at put out his hands, and felt about theroom, and at last he caught little Ellen was so much delighted, and laughed somerrily to see how queer Charles looked, that 28 A SECOND DAY IN he knew by the sound of her voice where tofind her. Carry Deacon came up to Maryand looked as if she wanted to say somethingto her, and as if she did not like to say Mary took Carry by the hand, and shesaid, Do you want to talk to me, Carry ? Carry said, Yes, but not before us go back into the school-room. Marywent with Carry into the school-room whilethe scholars were at play, and she said, Now,Carry dear, come and tell me all about yourgetting to school so late this morning. Carry. I stopped to see Mike Terryskittens. Mary. How did you know about thekittens?. IP I MARY CARROws SCHOOL. 29 Carry. When I was going past neighbourTerrys, Mike came out, and he had a por-ringer of milk, and he was carrying it withboth his hands for fear it would spill. Mary. Well, Carry, did you stop andask Mike what he had in the porringer ? Carry. Yes! Mike said it was milk forthe cat. He said, the old cat had somekittens in the night, and he was going to feedher. Mary. What else did Mike say ? Carry. He said the kittens were downin the barn, and the old cat took hold of thekittens by their necks, with her mouth. Mikeasked me to come and see them. Mary. Did you tell Mike you were onyour way to school, ai^d had not leave to stop. 30 A SECOND DAY IN Carry, I only told him I was going toschool, I did not tell him about leave to stop. Mary. What did Mike say to that ?- Carry. He said he did not like to go toschool. The master was cross. He would ra-ther stay at home and play; and then I wentwith him to see the kittens. One wa
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