'Good sooth! I know not be she wench or swain;Her face proclaims her one, her deeds the other!''PEGGY! Peggy! where are you? Peggy! Aunt Helen wants you! Oh, Peggy, do be quick! Wherever areyou hiding?'Getting no response to her calls, the speaker, a pretty fair-haired girl of fifteen, flung her brownholland cooking-apron over her head, and ran out across the farmyard into the lightly-falling rain.She peeped into the cart-shed, where the hens were scratching about among the loose straw.Certainly Peggy was not there. She ...
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'Good sooth! I know not be she wench or swain;Her face proclaims her one, her deeds the other!''PEGGY! Peggy! where are you? Peggy! Aunt Helen wants you! Oh, Peggy, do be quick! Wherever areyou hiding?'Getting no response to her calls, the speaker, a pretty fair-haired girl of fifteen, flung her brownholland cooking-apron over her head, and ran out across the farmyard into the lightly-falling rain.She peeped into the cart-shed, where the hens were scratching about among the loose straw.Certainly Peggy was not there. She searched in the kitchen garden, but there was nothing to be seenexcept the daffodils nodding their innocent heads under the gooseberry-bushes. Round through theorchard she sped, bringing down a shower of cherry-blossom as she brushed against the lowgrowing trees, and greatly disturbing a robin, who was feeding a young family in a hole in the ivy, but without any sign of the truant. Here and there Lilian ran, hunting in all Peggy's favouritehaunts-now peeping into a hollow yew-tree, now peering at the top of a ladder, now rummaging inthe tool-shed, then back through the sand-quarry into the stack-yard, where there was a very goodchance that the young lady might be hidden away in some snug little hole among the hay; but thoughLilian got a tolerable amount of hay-seed into her hair, her efforts were fruitless, and she was justturning away, hot and out of breath, to give up the useless search, when the sound of a low, chuckling laugh attracted her to the barn.The door was slightly ajar, and she peeped in.On the floor among the straw sat a little boy of between eight and nine years old, gazing withrapturous delight into the rafters of the roof. Following the direction of his eyes, Lilian glanced up, and beheld a sight which made her gasp with horror. The barn was a very large one, and wasspanned by a great cross-beam, which ran across the whole length from one end to another.Mounted on this, fully fifteen feet above the ground, a small girl was slowly walking along, her grayeyes bright with excitement, her brown curls flying in wild disorder, and her arms stretched out oneither side to balance herself as she went on her perilous journey.Lilian gazed at her spellbound; she did not dare to speak or move, lest by some mischance thefrail little figure should lose its nerve and come crashing down on to the stone floor below.The child herself, however, did not seem to be troubled with the slightest fear, for she walked onas steadily as if the beam had been a plain turnpike road, giving a shout of triumph as she reachedthe cross-bar, and slid down the ladder on to the grou
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