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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