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KING PELLINORE’S LITERARY MAGAZINE

person didn’t know I had it. I could had never seen a tiger before, but I
give up a moon that I found in the knew them in a minute by the stripes.
daytime, because I should be afraid If I could have one of those skins, it
some one was looking; but if I found it would make a lovely gown.
in the dark, I am sure I should find Today I am getting better ideas
some kind of an excuse for not saying about distances. I was so eager to get
anything about it. For I do love hold of every pretty thing that I
moons, they are so pretty and so giddily grabbed for it, sometimes when
romantic. I wish we had five or six; I it was too far off, and sometimes when
would never go to bed; I should never it was but six inches away but seemed
get tired lying on the moss-bank and a foot--alas, with thorns between! I
looking up at them. learned a lesson; also I made an
Stars are good, too. I wish I could axiom, all out of my own head--my
get some to put in my hair. But I very first one; THE SCRATCHED
suppose I never can. You would be EXPERIMENT SHUNS THE
surprised to find how far off they are, THORN. I think it is a very good one
for they do not look it. When they for one so young.
first showed, last night, I tried to I followed the other Experiment
knock some down with a pole, but it around, yesterday afternoon, at a
didn’t reach, which astonished me; distance, to see what it might be for, if
then I tried clods till I was all tired I could. But I was not able to make
out, but I never got one. It was [it] out. I think it is a man. I had
because I am left-handed and cannot never seen a man, but it looked like
throw good. Even when I aimed at the one, and I feel sure that that is what it
one I wasn’t after I couldn’t hit the is. I realize that I feel more curiosity
other one, though I did make some about it than about any of the other
close shots, for I saw the black blot of reptiles. If it is a reptile, and I
the clod sail right into the midst of the suppose it is; for it has frowzy hair
golden clusters forty or fifty times, and blue eyes, and looks like a reptile.
just barely missing them, and if I It has no hips; it tapers like a carrot;
could have held out a little longer when it stands, it spreads itself apart
maybe I could have got one. like a derrick; so I think it is a reptile,
So I cried a little, which was though it may be architecture.
natural, I suppose, for one of my age, I was afraid of it at first, and
and after I was rested I got a basket started to run every time it turned
and started for a place on the extreme around, for I thought it was going to
rim of the circle, where the stars were chase me; but by and by I found it was
close to the ground and I could get only trying to get away, so after that I
them with my hands, which would be was not timid any more, but tracked it
better, anyway, because I could gather along, several hours, about twenty
them tenderly then, and not break yards behind, which made it nervous
them. But it was farther than I and unhappy. At last it was a good
thought, and at last I had to give it up; deal worried, and climbed a tree. I
I was so tired I couldn’t drag my feet waited a good while, then gave it up
another step; and besides, they were and went home.
sore and hurt me very much. Today the same thing over. I’ve got
I couldn’t get back home; it was too it up the tree again.
far and turning cold; but I found some
tigers and nestled in among them and SUNDAY.--It is up there yet.
was most adorably comfortable, and Resting, apparently. But that is a
their breath was sweet and pleasant, subterfuge: Sunday isn’t the day of
because they live on strawberries. I rest; Saturday is appointed for that. It

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