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Grandmother Elsie

CHAPTER X
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I wouldn't have come in if I hadn't known she was out.

I saw her going to market.

I'm going off to Miller's Pond to fish for trout.

You know it's Saturday and there's no school.

Jim Bates is going with me and we're to be back by noon; that is, old Tommy said I must." Lulu laughed at Max's irreverent manner of alluding to the man who had the oversight of him out of school hours; then jumping up, "O Max!" she cried, "I want to go too! I'll be ready in a minute." "What'll Mrs.Scrimp say ?" laughed Max.
Lulu tossed her head with a scornful smile which said more plainly than words that she did not care what Mrs.Scrimp might do or say in regard to the matter, ran into the hall, and returned almost instantly with hat and sacque.
"Come, Max," she said, "we'd better be off before she gets back.


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