Autumn Days. 129

 

some bagpipes and the other a
kind of horn, and, of course, all
thought of lessons went out of our
heads when we heard them begin.
What fun it was to listen, and to
watch their queer grimaces and
antics, as they danced about to
their own music !

But we had not been enjoying
this long when a terrible thing
happened. Oh, little reader, it
makes me shudder now!

You must understand that our
school-room was on the ground-~
floor, but raised a good way from
the ground; a separate room built
out from the house, the roof sloping

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