Excerpt from Running to Waste: The Story of a Tomboy

Bouncers, Teddy! the roundest and the rosiest. Drop them, quick! My apron"s all ready for the darlings."

"It"s very well to say drop them; but it"s just as much as I can do to keep from falling myself. Don"t you see I"m holding on with both hands?"

"What a fuss you do make! Come down, and let me try. I never saw a tree yet big enough to scare me."

"Who"s scart, Becky Sleeper? I ain"t - not by a long chalk. When a feller"s holdin" on with both hands, he can"t be expected to pick very quick - can he?"

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