times, raps y, or ime to play h Laura and Mary.

    One game tanding it all up on end. trying to get t get away.

    t dodging and running, but once  t tove. t get past Pa, and t.

    terribly,  it all seemed real. Mary  as Pa came nearer Laura screamed, and  over th her.

    And at once t all. tanding t Laura.

    quot;ell!quot; o ;Youre only a little  of cider  by Jinks! Youre as strong as a little French horse!

    quot;You s frig; Ma said. quot;Look heir eyes are.

    Pa looked, and took down o play and sing.

    quot;Yankee Doodle  to torousies,  see tohere was so many houses.”

    Laura and Mary forgot all about the mad dog.

    quot;And t big guns, Big as a log of maple, And every time turned em round, It took ttle.

    quot;And every time t took a  made a noise like fation louder.”

    Pa ime , and Laura clapped o the music when he sang,  “And Ill sing Yankee Doodle-de-do, And Ill sing Yankee Doodle, And Ill sing Yankee Doodle-de-do, And Ill sing Yankee Doodle!”

    All alone in ttle able and  night.

    ts , and Jack t lay blinking at the fireplace.

    Ma sat in  of table. t and s in ttom of its glass boo keep ts of red flannel among t to make it pretty. It ty.

    Laura loved to look at ts glass cs yelloeadily, and its bos of flannel. So look at time, burning yelloimes green above the golden and ruby coals.

    And told stories. ory, ake tickle til they laughed aloud. his eyes were blue and merry.

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