CECILY KING.
AN ACCOUNT OF OUR VISIT TO COUSIN MATTIE'S
We all walked over to Cousin Mattie's last week. They were all
well there and we had a fine dinner. On our way back a snow-storm
came up and we got lost in the woods. We didn't know where we
were or nothing. If we hadn't seen a light I guess we'd all have
been frozen and snowed over, and they would never have found us
till spring and that would be very sad. But we saw a light and
made for it and it was Peg Bowen's. Some people think she is a
witch and it's hard to tell, but she was real hospitable and took
us all in. Her house was very untidy but it was warm. She has a
skull. I mean a loose skull, not her own. She lets on it tells
her things, but Uncle Alec says it couldn't because it was only an
Indian skull that old Dr. Beecham had and Peg stole it when he
died, but Uncle Roger says he wouldn't trust himself with Peg's
skull for anything. She gave us supper. It was a horrid meal.
The Story Girl says I must not tell what I found in the bread and
butter because it would be too disgusting to read in Our Magazine
but it don't matter because we were all there, except Sara Ray,
and know what it was. We stayed all night and us boys slept in
straw.
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