"What's that?" she inquired.
"Why, don't you see, Grandma?" exclaimed Robert, "that's Fairy
Carrie that we ran away with. They made her sing at the show. We just
went in a minute to see the pig-headed man. I had my gold dollar. And
she felt so awful. And we saw her behind the tent."
"She cried, Ma Padgett," burst in aunt Corinne, "like her heart was
broke, and she couldn't talk at all. Then they were coming out to
make her go in again, and we said didn't she want to go to you? You
wouldn't let her live with a pig-headed man and have to sing. And she
wanted to go, so they came out. And we took hold of her hands and
ran. And they chased us. And we couldn't go to the tavern 'cause they
chased us the other way: it got dark, and when Bobaday hid us under a
house, they chased past us, and we waited, oh! the longest time."
"And then," continued Robert, "when we came out, we didn't know
which way to go to the tavern, but started roundabout, through fields
and over fences, and all, so the show people wouldn't see us. Aunt
Corinne was scared. And we stumbled over cows, and dogs barked at us.
But we went on till after 'while just as we's slippin' up a back
street we met J.
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