in the water which attracted him to another spot on the brink of the pond here he said in a loud whisper come here i take care keep on the don t step where the cows have been he added pointing to a of dry grass with trodden mud on each side of it for tom s contemptuous conception of a girl included the attribute of being unfit to walk in dirty places came carefully as she was and bent down to look at what seemed a golden arrow head darting through the water it was a water snake tom told her and at last could see the wave of its body very much wondering that a snake could swim had drawn nearer and nearer � she must see it too though it was bitter to her like every thing else since tom did not care about her seeing it at last she was close by and tom who had been aware of her approach but would not notice it till he was obliged turned round and said now get away there s no room for you on the grass here nobody asked you to come there were passions at war in at that moment to have made a tragedy if were made by passion only but the essential n which was present in the passion was to the action the utmost could do with a fierce thrust of her small brown arm was to push poor little pink and white into the cow trodden mud then tom could not restrain himself and gave two smart on the arm as he ran to pick up who lay cry the mill on the ing helplessly retreated to the roots of a tree a few yards o and looked on usually her r came quickly after one rash deed but now tom and had her so miserable she was glad to spoil their happiness � glad to make body uncomfortable why she be sorry tom was very slow to forgive her however sorry she might have been i shall tell mother you know miss said tom loudly and emphatically as soon as was up and ready to walk away it was not tom s practice to tell but here justice clearly demanded that should be visited with the utmost punishment not that tom had learned to put his views in that abstract form he never mentioned justice and had no idea that his desire to punish might be called b that fine name was too absorbed by the evil that had befallen her � the of her pretty best clothes and the discomfort of being wet and dirty � to much of tiie cause which was entirely mysterious to her she could never have guessed what she had done to make with her but she felt that was very and disagreeable and made no entreaties to tom that he not tell only running along by his side and crying while sat on the roots of the tree and looked after them with her small face sally said tom when they reached the kitchen door and sally looked at them in speechless with a piece of bread and butter in her mouth and a fork in her hand sally tell mother it was pushed into the mud but ha how did you get near such mud as that said sally making a face as she stooped down and examined the tom s imagination had not been rapid and enough to include this question among the foreseen consequences but it was no sooner put than he foresaw whither it tended and that would not be considered the only in the case he walked quietly away from the kitchen door leaving sally to that pleasure of which active minds prefer to ready made knowledge sally as you are aware lost no time in presenting at the parlor door for to have so dirty an object introduced the house at g rum was too great a weight to be sustained by a single mind goodness gracious aunt exclaimed after by an inarticulate scream keep her at the door sally don t g h er off the whatever you do why she s tumbled into some nasty mud said mrs tile mill on liver going up to to examine into the amount of damage to clothes for which she felt herself responsible to her sister k you please um it was miss as pushed her in said sally master tom s been and said so and they must ha been to the pond for it s only there they could ha got into such dirt there it is it s what i ve been telling you said mrs in a tone of prophetic sadness it s your children � there s no knowing what they ll come to mrs was mute feeling herself a truly wretched mother as usual the thought pressed upon her that people would think that she had done something wicked to deserve her maternal troubles while mrs began to give elaborate directions to sally how to guard the premises serious injury in the course of removing the dirt meantime tea was to be brought in by the cook and the two naughty children were to have theirs in an manner in the kitchen mrs went out to speak to these naughty children supposing them to be close at hand but it was not until after some search that she found tom with rather a hardened careless air against the white of the poultry yard and his piece of string on the other side as a means of the turkey cock tom you naughty boy where is your sister said mrs in a distressed voice i don t know said tom his eagerness for justice on had diminished since he had seen clearly that it could hardly be brought about without the injustice of some blame on his own conduct why where did you 