o toiger, treet, in a very poor    ime of test parsimony in t    difficult and tised a little touco prick ion of greater productivity. In anoten years time, tates ies, le outbreak of summer couc a toucypo o bill when he had buried his wife.

        For, at t time, t freseen, Lizzie four -- stern and square, a squat regle of a ced Lizzies retc back over eac tig and m    lump of little girl around in     a demonstrative c sion easily, except to ted sometuitively feminine in spite of o court it.

        t cottage on Ferry -- very     taker lived on uned among tiff furnis marriage. s and pieces oday if turned up fresique store, but in time    dreary interior, tiny , mildetern like brains, top of ters sleeping in one room iy bed.

        On Ferry, in t part of touguese fres eeto ed cive; every year more cory sle t summoo labour as bells o prayer.

        tood, or, rat a bibulous angle on a narroreet cut across at an oblique angle by a, all t cookie jar of broken gingerbread    ters uffed    fend raised voices in unknoongues and side t roerfeit    sometimes used to scream.

        Sucecture of two girls early childhood.

        A    and stuck a poster, siger, on to a picket fence. As soon as Lizzie saer, sed to go to t Emma    a t. teen-year-old    time, t skivvy just quit e t so mucer on t tal for t er, purpled    off, tore it up.

        t ime. Emma    s cookery and Faty of anotly skivvy until sucime as plague struck, already po-efficy of remarriage; ly uncooked    almost put ing mood, but t is not to say emper. So t, ten-like upon cruly loved t daughter, whose obduracy recalled his own.

        Emma unhandily darned a sock.

        "Get t co bed before I lose my temper!"

        Emma dropped t in dour lines of affront as sed on tling stratress -- oat straest and c -- sat    t in a sunbeam. Sment. It    midsummer, only six oclod still brigside.

        S on to tool upon o tcood open for air beo Father.

        -doors lean and famisself at t cealed ts on trotting doreet, ent. S be deinkled in    might signify a profane church.

        "ts a tiger," Emma old ed ter on their fence.

        "A tiger is a big cat," Emma added instructively.

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        A very big cat.

        A dumpy, red-striped, regular cat of tic variety greeted Lizzie op a gatepost as sumped determinedly along Ferry Street; our cat, Ginger, imental er protracted spinsterimes call Miss Ginger, or even Miss Ginger Cuddles. Lizzie, ernly ignored Miss Ginger Cuddles. Miss Ginger Cuddles s put out a pao detain o suggest sook sed ts as to , for all t decision    one firm foot before t t idea     t all    tan, barking dog of unforesee    could go    pleased.

        ts easy-going grin took a fancy to Lizzie and, yapping tle figure in te pinafore as it marc to pat its head. She was a fearless girl.

        t took a fancy to tle on one particular tree. to t clo sook tle legs could not keep up ten-year-old put o a field on town.

        "See top?" te striped tent of scarcely imaginable proportions, into o spare inside for anot red and riped tent, side and, besides tents, bootalls, dotted about t most of all s number of people, for it seemed to    to be out tonig,    all ern jahose ice-blue eyes.

        Sranger among trangers, for all    to to faces. tures of teristi; and te smiles of tuguese, er tripping off tipsy-sounding tongues.

        "y by to slito pick a pocket or to plete treat, who knows?

        Above ting tones of ts uo ted industrial cities, sus never seen i set tion t made us all modern.

        At su of Neal, a Roman sensuality; uernly voluptuous sky, Lizzie abandoned o tated smells and never-before- fat in a vat    dougs; ; s; cries of vendors; crack of rifles from te-faced cloered a banjo, age. too muco take in at ooo muco take in at all -- too ric for    saken a little beyond    igo, a sense of profound strangeness overing her.

        All unnoticeably small as saken up by tossed about among iive sticoats, too close to to see mucic bustle of t tced up ement so t so colour up in t by tide of to a long table where hard cider was sold from a barrel.

        te tableclot and sticky , metallic odour. An old in mugs at t, mug after mug, and to oto a tin box -- splaso table to prevent rade ur off and cider cascaded on to table.

        t into Lizzie, tablecloto    darkness and crouuous stream from t until sed t into    very sensitive spot imate sively at the nape of her neck.

        So face , detly dressed in a sligepusly filled    to ance,    quiver of t    drank, tossed its pink snout, and trotted off out table.

        Lizzie did not ate. S past ts. ts tail disappeared be piled     to find    in t time in an abrupt margin of pitc of to a , t; able; bes, but irring, and t bird.

        to rootle t o stroke it, it ss ears out of its eyes and took off at a great pato tryside. tention ely diverted from tment by t of a man o ts, leaning slig soued itself. Fumbling    of rousers, urned round and tripped over Lizzie, because tle unsteady on    and so be seen among t doook hold of her shoulders.

        "Small to tle, ted rig of     s of moustache pale half-moon of his smile.

        "Small girl," ed er a closer look.    speak like ordinary folks.    from around ts. ugged at rousers. ook firm     it tenderly up beting thighs.

        "Small girl, do you knohis is for?"

        S buttons; serge; somet and moving. S mind it.    e or th: "Kissy, kissy from Missy?"
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