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little under clothes, and the beautiful
little shoes and stockings were there,
tod “i ,

“And how did she take you off ?”
asked Maggy. |

“She said she was passing my fa-
ther’s garden, and looking over the wall,
she saw a child on a earden bench
asleep. She climbed over and: stole
me, thinking that if a creat reward
was offered, she would take me back,
and pretend she had found me; but
she said she grew fond of me, and
could not bear to part with me, and so
she kept me on till now. But she said
I must hurry, or they would catch me