Show 7 y isa MAW MARY GRAHAM 1 P adim arram hi wn MOTHER GOSSIP well said little mother gossip to the girl who iho aas as adventuring aden turing with aith the boy to the house of secrets what fint have you to lo tell lell us mother hot been the latest person for them to men meet lier lips were curled and they seem to move or change evin even evi n as she ate for they were i now till nil eating supper us fast a as they could except mr wood elf and the boy and the girl all of mother it gossips ls family were ere eating mr wood elf had just whispered to the hie boy and girl that lie he had ad a dell clous CIOUS picnic supper really ready for or them at the lie top of the lull hill so that they eat here it was entirely too disagreeable a place well said the girl aee met so mary nice people along the he roud road nice screamed mother gossip you mean you thought they berenice we were renice nice and theu then found out how horrid they were lere it eh all this time the tattletale tattle tale twins kept interrupting to tell on the other w hile fille mother gossip smiled in tier ugly way eiery time they did so the boy end arid the lie girl thought the tattletale tattle tale twins were quite the most horrid creatures they had bad ever met lu in fact they thought the twins would get through trying to get out of things themselves and blaming each other find and their relatives and telling on them the dull brown suits of the twins were so ugly too they looked as it if they were uever never brushed or cleaned NO ko said the girl they turn out to be horrid in the ae least ast in a fact weve seve met some delightful people quite delightful said the girl Didi it you jou hear any stories about them which made 3 bu think differ asked mother gossip none said the girl wen she said turning to the boy disappointedly what have vou ou to tell me nothing but about our adventures it if like to hear bear about them I 1 thought I 1 had a lot to tell you as the girl thought too we are so full of stories of our adventures and the interesting tereSt te ilig people weve met but your kind of news we li avent any you avent li any screamed mother gossip gosp how perfectly horrible well ill tell you that you can be pretty sure that most of those people you met whom you thought thou glit were so nice had bad something queer about them maybe eaten their neighbors cherries which lung hung over in their back yard and pretended to their neighbors hors that the birds bird had bad eaten them or maybe some of them pretended they sent their clothes clot lies to the laundry and actually washed them themselves iu in a I 1 tub behind the houa hou fl ive no doubt that aou ou went along with your eyes shut yes tha that t is what you must done for if you had had your eyes opened you would have thought it was ins very pe pecullar peculiar cullar hie fie way nay the lady who lived in tho the white house with green blinds had act two blinds closed and two to open in the right hand root room in ill front of tier her house that looked very strange to me she Is without it a doubt making herself a wig behind those closed blinds tier her hair lias has been growing very thin of late arid and sho she doomit want anyone to know it but oil oh dear im fin so disappointed in you you wont be nice to my iny dear twins and jouie brought rue me no news linblad im lin glad 1 I dont belong to your family why youre both so pleasant arid kind and charitable all those thoe things dont t get along with me n e 1 I wanted to hear of queer things lings ti and of liow how you would tell lell a story on oil the boy and he be one on you they dont do such quell things said so fit so 30 disappointed mr mir wood elf aliey citey agree rue me that the tattletale is always alays worse worie than the hie one iba has done the filing which is 15 being tattled about they are very decided on oil that point ekit as I 1 am mercy lu in my opinion the llie person who has done the tiling thing which Is being tattled about is only a little wee scrap bad but the person who tattles whew 1 I terrible you tire are so str strange auge said mother gossip |