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te Manor, she looked so stony and stubbornly uninterestedthat they did not know what to think about her. They tried to be kind toher, but she only turned her face away when Mrs. Crawford attempted tokiss her, and held herself stiffly when Mr. Crawford patted hershoulder."She is such a plain child," Mrs. Crawford said pityingly, afterward."And her mother was such a pretty creature. She had a very prettymanner, too, and Mary has the most unattractive ways I ever saw in achild. The

nd keep an eye on the dinner at the same time. Today, when you called me, I distinctly heard that queer clock of the Pyes' striking. So no doubt Josie or Gertie was listening.""Oh, so that is why you said, You've got a new clock at Green Gables, haven't you?' I couldn't imagine what you meant. I heard a vicious click as soon as you had spoken. I suppose it was the Pye receiver being hung up with profane energy. Well, never mind the Pyes. As Mrs. Rachel says, Pyes they always were and

he Woodman seized his axe, and with one stroke cut the Serpent in two. "Ah," said he,"No gratitude from the wicked." The Bald Man and the Fly There was once a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but acks palm came on his head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: "You will only

stle in the air, especially if the magician had anything to do with it! I would much sooner come and help you to build real houses."The traveller in the dusty brown cloak still shook his head. "Little ladies in gold and silver gowns can only build castles in the air," he said. "Do the people who live in your houses never build castles in the air?" asked the Princess. "I never thought of asking them," answered the great builder. "I have been too much

and would have liked nothing better than to see some enormous mischief happen to Danae and her son. The only good man in this unfortunate island of Seriphus appears to have been the fisherman. As Perseus walked along, therefore, the people pointed after him, and made mouths, and winked to one another, and ridiculed him as loudly as they dared."Ho, ho!" cried they; "Medusa's snakes will sting him soundly!" Now, there were three Gorgons alive at that period; and they were the