84 PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS,

me how, when she was a little girl, there
was a peach tree near the school house ;
that the man who owned the tree al-
lowed the children to pick up the
peaches that dropped on the ground,
but that he did not permit them to climb
the tree, or to knock off any of the
peaches; that the good school mistress
told the children what the rules were,
but that the mischievous Laura disobeyed
them, and paid, as children are so apt to
do, very dearly for her disobedience.

‘s Laura,” I said, “‘let me have the
story for my book.”

‘‘Why, you have got one of your own
very nearly like it,” said she.

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