At Elm Cottage. 35

 

go Johnny’s shoes, as he flings himself
out from under the umbrella and in
at the door of the kitchen, while
May still struggles with her great,
unwieldy machine, and tries with all
her might to keep it from turning
inside out, and to persuade it to shut
down, which apparently it was as
loath to do, as before it had been to
go up at her pleasure.

It had never been used to such a
young mistress, you see; and old
things don’t like to be ordered about
by young ones.

Well, though Johnny had now no
clattering shoes on to announce his
arrival, yet the old people upstairs
soon heard the young voices, and,

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