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The Wouldbegoods

CHAPTER 2
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And opposite the dairy window the barn goes straight down into the moat too.

It is like pictures of Venice; but you cannot get opposite the dairy window anyhow.
We got the sheet down again when we had tied the torn parts together in a bunch with string, and Oswald was just saying-- 'Now then, my hearties, pull together, pull with a will! One, two, three,' when suddenly Dora dropped her bit of the sheet with a piercing shriek and cried out-- 'Oh! it's all wormy at the bottom.

I felt them wriggle.' And she was out of the water almost before the words were out of her mouth.
The other girls all scuttled out too, and they let the sheet go in such a hurry that we had no time to steady ourselves, and one of us went right in, and the rest got wet up to our waistbands.

The one who went right in was only H.O.; but Dora made an awful fuss and said it was our fault.

We told her what we thought, and it ended in the girls going in with H.O.to change his things.


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