Sally made a dive at me, and I was so astonished I forgot to run, so she caught me.

She started for the wood house with me, and mother followed.

Sally turned at the door and she was the whitest of anything you ever saw.
"This is my affair," she said.

"I'll attend to this young lady." "Very well," said mother, and as I live she turned and left me to my sad fate, as it says in a story book we have.

I wish when people are going to punish me, they'd take a switch and strike respectably, like mother does.