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Gritli’s Children

CHAPTER IX
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You will, won't you?
I'll send you something pretty in return.

You can put them right into your pocket, you know, until you get home from your walk, and hold the pocket together _so_,--; so that they won't crawl out"; and Fred pinched up his pocket-hole so that no kind of a crawling thing could have escaped from it.

Rikli shuddered all over.
Elsli was very willing to do Fred this service, but she did not really see how, any more than in Oscar's case; but she said, modestly:-- "I will do my best, Fred; but how am I to know the creatures whose names are on your list ?" This was a sensible question, and Fred could not help seeing the importance of it; but he was not to be deterred by a slight obstacle.

He looked again at his lists.
"Suppose I should draw a figure of each creature against its name!" he said to himself.

"I will come to see you to-morrow morning, before you go away," he said to Elsli, and was off.
Little Rikli, whose lesson had been learned at such a severe cost, was quite cured of her foolish screaming whenever Fred came near her with his dear little insects; but she watched his every motion, lest his fist or his pockets should disgorge some green-eyed frog or other equally unpleasant treasure.


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