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    `O, tom, dare you? said Lucy. `Aunt said nt go out of the garden.

    `O, I s at tom. `Nobody ull see us. Besides I dont care if they do - Ill run off home.

    `But I couldnt run, said Lucy, ation.

    `O, never mind - t be cross om. `You say I took you.

    tom rotted by imidly enjoying treat of doing somety - excited also by tion of t celebrity, t ain  to folloo lose sigs t tom and Lucy s o Maggie. So s a feceresting monster - o be so very old, so very large, and to ite. ties did not sc tom caug of somet in ter ed o anot on the pond.

    `ake care! Keep on t step o a peninsula of dry grass, rodden mud on eac; for toms contemptuous conception of a girl included ttribute of being unfit to y places.

    Lucy came carefully as s doo look at er. It er-snake, tom told  last could see tine s body, very muc a snake could s too, t ter to om did not care about . At last, som,  notice it till urned round and said,

    `No ao come.

    t  t moment to ragedy, if tragedies  tial Greek ord ing to tion; tmost Maggie could do,  of o pustle pink-and-o trodden mud.

    tom could not restrain  slaps on to pick up Lucy, ed to ts of a tree a feently. Usually ance came quickly after one ras noom and Lucy o spoil to make everybody uncomfortable. om o forgive  have been.

    `I sell motom, loudly and empically, as soon as Lucy o   toms practice to `tell, but ice clearly demanded t Maggie sed most punis: not t tom  to put  abstract form; ioned `justice, and