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Show -19- "And I like you better right side up, too!" laughed Verus. While the girl and the spoon were talking, a man watched from behind a tree. When Sandy arose and started down the path, he followed silently. After awhile, Sandy saw the little boy that she had seen earlier. He was sitting on a pretty white fence and kicking his heels against the slats. "Hello," Sandy said. "Hullo," said the boy, sulkily. "I'm hungry. Do you know where I can get some food?" "Do you have any money?" asked the boy. "No." "Well,. I guess you can't get any food then." "I'm willing to work for it," said Sandy. "Well, - okay. Come with me." The boy jumped down from the fence and led Sandy to a pretty white and blue cottage. "Ma, there's a girl here who wants food!" A large woman wearing a huge black bonnet came to the door. "She wants food, does she? Does she have any money?" "Naw, but she said she'd work for it'.' "Humph. She did, did she. Well, we'll see. Come here, girl!" Sandy did not like the disagreeable woman at all, but she was so hungry she did as she was told. The woman led her to the back of the cottage and pointed to a partially dug flower bed. |