A Dangerous Adventure, 123

 

She was very fond of going into her mamma’s
bedroom whenever she could slip away without
nurse seeing her, and there she would busy her-
self looking at all the pretty things on the
dressing-table; and one day she found her
mamma’s shawl and bonnet and muff on the
bed, and she got hold of them and dressed herself
up in them, and then strutted off to show her-
self to nurse! She was very fond of her little
baby brother; but unfortunately she often,
without intending any harm, led him into mis-
chief. In her mamma’s bedroom there was a
large looking-glass called a cheval glass. One
day nurse missed the two little children, and
hunted all over the place for them. At last she
found them in their mamma’s room. Lucy was
showing her little brother his reflection in the
large glass. The little fellow not understanding
it, and seeing another little boy, as he thought,
ran up to him; his foot slipped, and down he

fell, bruising his poor little forehead, and knock-
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