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I t d l ITTLE Miss Mullet sat in a high LITTLE Lacked bricked red rocking chair on a hot Jot I summer afternoon There was nobody r cUe cite on the deserted hotel veranda erana because because be be- because cause nil ail the old ladies had llad gone Jone to take their naps and everybody else had bad gone bone off to have a good time somewhere t and andt Commie lommie had gone awa away to too top only ony Susie wasn't an any fun to play With anyway because she was always ahva's r boasting boastin about the things she bad had Torn Tom om IDle ime e wasn't any fun either because he be was i always afraid he was going goins to get hurt I somehow Miss Mullet was rather glad clad I they ey had gone cone off ocr and left her but as I wo sho rocked she wished she wished she wished she wished d ok oh a great creat many things I Ii t. t sho wished isled her ber mamma had taken for her to town with her to bu buy the prizes f I r the thc entertainment then she wished sister later Grace had taken her ber to drive with with I 1 her j er then sh she wished her ber brother bad had been l willing to take her off fishing but I i I r of all all I 1 think Miss MUs wished j she ne had a nice little girl Jirl to play with i I IQ I a Q little e girl gid i irl who wasn't al always allays talking fo about nt her new dresses and her er hair hai rib rib- I bons somebody bons-somebody bOdy that was r reel real 1 fun Miss Muffet s sighed and put her ber curly i fellow 9 e head in her hands and thou thought I i I if it was no use wishing things What I could she do to ba have e a good time ume Miss Muffet was so absorbed in iu thinkIng thinking thinking think- think ing that she he didn't hear bear a funny little l patter atter of bare feet and it wasn wasn't t until somebody put a hand band on the arm of thol the thoi l' l red d rocking chair wair that she gave ga a little jump and und looked up Oh Ohl said Miss Muffet because shw sho was walS so surprised fur there was a little I girl in a blue blu gingham apron I II I I came carno to sell these ower's she said and sad she held the thc bunch under Miss Muffet's luf- luf luff I lets fet's f ts t's nose for her to sniff but 1 I coupe mostly because 1 wanted to see what it looked like here Do you von ou live here Yes 1 said ald Miss liss Muffet I 1 s pose I 1 Ilire Ilive live lire here bere now but we haven't bavent been here liere herel I long and there arent aren't any little tittle girls to j play with and I wish wed we'd go o somewhere else Do you OU 3 want nt to play pillY lay n awfully w ully bad ball I Tusked uke the little girl irl dropping the flowers lowers suddenly suddenly into Miss Mies Muffet's i s la lap in her ex ex- Do you Cause 1 I do o if you'll play 1 I was wan all alone up the rOll road at the tho farm arm where 1 I live Ilse cause everybody c else was bus busy out haying An n I started stinted to go out too an an then I 1 went back to the tho gar gur- garI ar- ar I den an an picked the flowers no KO'S KOS s I Id I'd d have bave a sense to come Ome My Iy names name's h Flossie but I they call me Spider cause causo my hair is s t so o I black I guess What's your name Dame I I Miss Misu Mullets Mullet's what papa calls me me- me most everybody else just calls me mo Mullet Muffet Miss Mullet Muffet laughed Its funny your name dame should be Spider cause it just makes us u both regular Mother Goose only gals j I Im I'm not afraid of you jou ou and I think we ml might ht l play lay What That shall we play We c WJ ut i iu store and aud sell ell the Loo sweet peas aud have havo pebbles for lor money money- and aud the sweet sweat t peas would make wilke lovely J make wake believe if it was a caudy store Spider stood on one brown foot an and rubbed the other thoughtfully against lalu t J 1 r klc Theres heres lots more wore flowers m iii W my garden 1 l I could go home au an get some sowe more wore But nut I want to go 0 too exclaimed Miss Mh s Mallet Muffet and aud before you would have had time to say Jack Robinson why Spider and Miss Mullet Muffet were running down the carriage drive and along the warm du dusty t roadway and through the little green gateway gate I gateway gate gate- way that led into the garden of the lied Hed Farm There was as the est little teen teeny teens bit hit of a brook running through the garden garden gar gar- den and the they put the hollyhock dolls dollson on nn big green leaves and tried to sail nail them down the stream stream only only mostly they jumped out ont of the boats and went in swimming So Spider and Muffet made ever so 60 many maDY more and thought they would walk down the brook where there was waR a pool of quiet water so 60 Spider said There th the hollyhock dolls could have havea a picnic and the hollyhock dolls could have blackberries to eat I So Spider and Mullet Muffet put the dolls dolts then i had bad made into a S nice little sheltered I J spot that was like a bower under a rosebush rose roso bush and they started out to hunt for I some blackberries for the picnic I t r They found some great big ones and brought them back for the picnic and Spider carried the lIle berries in her ber hands and Mullet Muffet gathered up all nil the bolt hollyhock h k dolls and they started out together for forthe forthe the I clear pool in the woods I Spider thought she ehe knew the way ay and said said it really wasn't very ery fa far r but somehow somehow some some- how it must have been a good deal further a away way than Spider thought because because because be be- cause it took them a long time to reach I it H following the brook along There were a goo good 11 many places where they had bad to togo togo too go o quite out of their way because the trees and hushes grew grow fI BO so near the bank of the brook But they came to the pool finally Dually and they had bad the picnic and ate I all the blackberries themselves pretend in ing to eat them for the hollyhock dolls doUs Then after the picnic the dolls doUs had hall a dance on a lovely smooth slippery place under the pine trees tret s on the fallen pine pineneedles needles and just in the midst of this Spider glanced up and enid Oh Oli Mullet look quick look juick for th there therewa re wa was n a 11 furry brown little tittle animal with a IOD long pointed nose and a bj big bushy tail tall tall- tand t- t tand and he be was standing perfectly perfectly perfect still looking fit dt t them both But Mullet Muffet moved mo and the spell was broken and the little brown fox ox vanished vanished vanished van van- into the woods I 1 do like the woods Miss Muffet r re re- re marked I J wish we wc could go 0 way off and camp out just the way brother did last year car He had au an u awfully good time I We Wo might go off into the woods a little I I wa way and pIll play we were camping Spider said she thought she knew the way to a l place where there were rocks and where there was just a tiny bit of ofa a little doll dolt cave au and they might camp cump out th there re But they didn't find the tile ca cave e and the woods began to seem quite dark What hat time do you suppose suppo it is asked Spider I 1 1 ought to go homo home to supper an an 1 ought to feed m my chickens au au shut em up It must most be quite late late bout bout six o'clock 1 I guess ues But Hut Mullet Muffet couldn't believe it was so late She had been having ID such such good good fun that the time had passed parsed without berI her ber I knowing But the woods grew darker and after they had gone on quite a little way nil all I in silence and just the twigs cracking under their feet Spider r turned around suddenly and aud her ber chin shook just a n little tittle because hit she was too brave to cr and she said Oh Ob 1 Mullet I 1 dont don't think this is the right war home bome an I 1 think were we're all lost an lost an it its s coming on darker an it must be more than six sh o'clock an an 1 dont don't know how bow to find the brook for forwe fori we wc ought to have come to it long ago IlSO Even if we wc did come to it wed we'd have to togo togo togo go a long way following it the thc way we did didt when we came down to the pool Wed We'd o t d have a n long way WilY more to go before Lefore we could get bom home I When the the dinne dinner bell beli ran ran-g rang at the Red cd I 1 Farm Spiders Spider's mother asked Spiders Spider's father why Flossie lovie P hadn't come from the ilie I lay hay field She hasn't been there at all nil he an an- I haven't seen Heen her Have you Ted r Ted led said no he hadn't seemed hadn't-seemed seemed as ns If she had said she sho was going coins to go over and aud look ook at the hotel people just as he was starting with the t team am for for- forthe the first load I but hed he'd been so busy he had clean fo fore for I got what wha t she did sayI say 88 I I reckon she's over there he be sai said 1 But Spiders Spider's mother mothr thought differently and she worried d a as it grew later laler You'd better etter go over o to the hotel and see sec if it she's bes there Ted red and bring her home bome she sho said So Ted started off When ben he reached the hotel botel It was at quito quite dark and the first little star had grown quite bright and the other stars were coming cow com ing ins out onto He was met at nt the tho driveway by an excIted excited excited ex ex- cited crowd and some of them had lan lan- terns tern Oh have bave you seen en a little girl a white dr dress S and a a blue bluD sash She has bas yellow ellow hair and she's about eight years ol old and I she has bas been m roused missed since dinner um time I 1 |