13/13 I picked some of that, it was so green and pretty. Thorny likes queer leaves and berries, you know," answered Bab, "spatting," down her rough locks. Don't touch it! Swamp-sumach is horrid stuff,--Miss Celia said so;" and Ben looked anxiously at Bab, who felt her chubby face all over, and examined her dingy hands with a solemn air, asking, eagerly,-- "Will it break out on me 'fore I get to the circus ?" "Not for a day or so, I guess; but it's bad when it does come." "I don't care, if I see the animals first. Come quick, and never mind the old weeds and things," said Bab, much relieved; for present bliss was all she had room for now in her happy little heart.. |