Angela Brazil

A Terrible Tomboy Angela Brazil

'There! On my honour, I will never walk along that beam again, or let Bobby do it either. Will that suit you?'Lilian heaved a sigh of relief, for whatever might be Peggy's sins and misdeeds, her word, once given, was not lightly broken.'I've been looking for you everywhere, ' she said. 'Aunt Helen sent me to fetch you in at once, and I've been such a long time in finding you. I'm afraid she'll be ever so cross.''What does she want me for?''To darn your stockings. Oh, Peggy, how could you go and hide all those pairs away under the dressing-table? It was really silly, for you might have known Aunt Helen would be sure to hunt them out; and now she's fearfully angry about it, and says you'll have to sit and mend away till they're all finished; and she won't let me help you, either.'Peggy sighed philosophically.'I suppose I shall have to come, ' she said, getting up and shaking the straw out of her hair. 'Never mind; I'd really rather mend them all in one big heap than in a lot of little horrid pottering times; it spoils one's Saturdays so!''Aunt Helen said if I found Bobby he was to come in too, and learn his Latin, ' continued Lilian, looking round. But that youth had prudently disappeared at the first hint of Saturday duties, and was nowhere to be seen. Peggy chuckled.'I'm afraid you won't find him, ' she remarked; 'and it's no use looking. He's got the most lovely hiding-place in the world that he goes to when he doesn't want to be told to come in. I only found it out by accident myself, and I promised wild horses shouldn't wrench the secret from me. Come along; we may as well go and get the scolding over.'And the young lady tossed back her tangled locks, shook her fist at theanticipated pile of darning; then, putting on an air of chastened and becoming meekness, as being most likely to soothe Aunt Helen's wrath, she marched sturdily into the house. It was a beautiful old home into which Peggy entered, half castle, half farmhouse, with an air of having seen better days about