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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, Some Little People, by George Kringle,
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+SOME LITTLE PEOPLE
+
+by
+
+GEORGE KRINGLE
+
+Illustrated
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+New York
+Dodd, Mead & Company
+Publishers
+
+Copyright, 1881,
+by
+Dodd, Mead & Company.
+
+
+
+
+SOME LITTLE PEOPLE.
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+
+'Lisbeth Lillibun lived a hundred miles from London. If she had not
+lived a hundred miles from London, it is likely you would never have
+heard of her. She would have liked it better had somebody else lived
+where she did instead of herself. 'Lisbeth was a very little girl when
+she found out that she lived a hundred miles from London. So was Dickon,
+her brother, very little when he found it out, but he did not care so
+much about it; indeed I think he did not care at all.
+
+'Lisbeth always remembered the day upon which she found it out. She
+could not quite count a hundred herself at the time; she could count
+ten, but had not learned to count a hundred. She had heard Gorham count
+a hundred, and knew that it was a great many more than ten. She thought
+that ten was a great many. She knew that ten miles must be a great way;
+she had several times walked a mile. She had walked a mile the day she
+discovered that it was a hundred miles to London. A hundred miles, she
+knew, was a very great way.
+
+'Lisbeth had concluded that she would like to live in London; that she
+would live in London; that London was the only proper place for any body
+to live. This was why she did not like to discover that London was a
+hundred miles away. But how she came to know anything about London, or
+to think it was the only proper place to live, I shall not pretend to
+say.
+
+She had gone a long way from home, that day, with Dickon; as I said, she
+had gone a mile. It was a pleasant mile, straight across the fields, but
+they should not have gone so far. Mother was at the mill; Gorham had
+gone to school; Trotty was asleep. Dickon and 'Lisbeth wanted to do
+something, or see something, so they wandered over the fields for a
+mile. If they had not gone so far, 'Lisbeth would not have heard about
+the distance to London; she would have been more happy had she not gone
+so far; she would not have heard the men, with the packs on their backs,
+reading the mile-stone. She should not have gone so far from home; we
+generally come to some grief when we do something which is not quite
+right. 'Lisbeth did.
+
+Dickon wished to show her the flowers blooming by the way; he wished to
+show her the bees buzzing in the flowers; he wished to show her the bird
+warbling on the post, but she was looking at the two men with the packs
+on their backs; she was looking at them plodding along the way. They
+grew smaller and smaller to her eyes. They became but specks. They
+disappeared.
+
+She thought she would see them again in London. She would ask them how
+they got there, and how they liked it. So Dickon watched the bees, a
+long while, by himself, and looked at the pretty flower-hearts; and the
+bird warbled on the post, but 'Lisbeth knew not a thing about it.
+
+Everything looked more happy than 'Lisbeth; the grass that grew under
+foot, and the contented little weeds that nodded and dozed in the sun,
+and the flowers that hung just where they grew, with the most
+comfortable little faces, and the bird that warbled on the post.
+
+Indeed, as to the bird, it might have been thought that he did not
+admire 'Lisbeth's serious face, that he was too happy himself to be
+looking at any one who was not as happy as he was, for, though at first,
+with head turned toward her, he ruffled his throat, and swayed from side
+to side as he sung and sung, he suddenly grew mute, eyed 'Lisbeth with
+one eye and then with the other, and like a bird who had made up his
+mind, turned his back upon her, still standing on the post, and lifted
+his head, and ruffled his throat, and filled the air with his sweet
+notes, without so much as turning an eye toward 'Lisbeth as she stood.
+
+Everything looked more comfortable than 'Lisbeth. Do you know why
+'Lisbeth did not look comfortable? If you cannot think why it was
+to-day, perhaps you may be able to do so to-morrow. If you cannot think
+why it was this morning, perhaps you may be able to do so by this
+evening. Indeed, I think you will know without waiting to think a
+minute.
+
+Dickon filled her hands with flowers--they were such sweet flowers, with
+such pretty tender faces; every one had something on its lips to say as
+it looked up. Did you ever guess what the flowers were trying to say
+loud enough for you to hear? I think they all say something to us; some
+of us cannot hear what they say, some of us cannot guess what they say.
+The flowers looked brightly up at 'Lisbeth; they did not look
+discontented, even though they were broken; they did not complain as she
+carried them away; they did not even turn to look reproachfully at
+Dickon who had broken them from their stems. They were very bright
+flowers.
+
+'Lisbeth wished many times to know if Dickon thought the men with the
+packs had reached London. She asked him so many times, that at length he
+laughed quite aloud, and yet she knew well enough that the men had to
+walk a hundred miles; she and Dickon had walked but one. So she laughed
+too, when Dickon laughed, and they both began chasing the butterflies
+that waved their beautiful wings over the field, their wings beautiful
+as the faces of the flowers; the wings which changed colors as they
+fanned them in the sun; the pretty wings which changed color every
+moment and which shone like flower petals sprinkled with gold.
+
+When they were tired of chasing butterflies they remembered that Trotty
+might be awake; that Gorham might have come home; that mother might have
+come from the mill, and have been looking for them; so they began
+chasing each other instead of chasing the butterflies, and it seemed to
+be much the best thing to do, for as they chased each other they came
+nearer to the door at home. Indeed they should have thought of this
+before, for as they came bounding around the house, startling the
+swallows under the eaves, Trotty was tumbling from the cradle, and
+mother was hastening toward the door.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+
+'Lisbeth did not forget that it was a hundred miles to London; she never
+forgot it. She did not forget the two men with the packs on their backs.
+At the same time she could not forget that a hundred was a great many.
+'Lisbeth told her mother that they could all put packs on their backs
+and go to London, that she wanted to live in London; but her mother only
+laughed, she did not want to go to London to live at that time; she did
+not want to walk a hundred miles with a pack on her back.
+
+After this 'Lisbeth felt very much discouraged; she had believed that
+everybody would like to live in London; she did not know how to manage.
+If 'Lisbeth had been more like the flowers she would have been contented
+to grow just where she found herself; but she was not like the flowers;
+she was not like them at all. She thought a great deal about getting to
+London. I am not sure that 'Lisbeth thought enough about it to find out
+how she would like getting to London if mother did not go along; that
+is a part which I am almost sure that 'Lisbeth did not think about, but
+she was very determined about getting there.
+
+She invited Gorham to go with her, but Gorham knew better than to try to
+do that; he knew that London was a great way off; that he could not go
+unless mother went too; he knew that 'Lisbeth was very silly indeed. But
+'Lisbeth did not believe Gorham when he told her all this; she had an
+opinion of her own. She and Dickon used to play "going to London" every
+day, but this did not suit 'Lisbeth.
+
+There were five mothers who went to the mill every day. 'Lisbeth
+concluded to ask the little boys and girls belonging to these mothers to
+go to London with her. Then she concluded she would only ask the boys;
+boys would not get frightened and run away; they would not let anybody
+pick her up and put her in a bag; Dickon was a boy; she knew all about
+boys; she was afraid the girls would get put in bags. She told the girls
+they should not go. She stamped her foot at them; they should not go.
+Indeed I do not believe they wanted to go, but the boys did; they
+liked it. They all concluded to start at once.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+There were seven of them beside Dickon. Dickon carried a basket, as well
+as a stick with a rag upon it which they called a flag. 'Lisbeth carried
+a flag too and walked in front. Nobody was ever so proud in starting for
+London; nobody was ever so well pleased, or so little afraid of what
+might happen on the way, nor at the end of the way, nor at the end of
+the whole affair. Nobody who thought so much of going to London, ever
+forgot so entirely to think about what was to be done when they got
+there; what was to be done for a supper, for a penny, for a roof, for a
+bed, for a second dress or pair of trousers, for a mother! Nobody
+remembered anything but that they were on the way to London.
+
+They went a mile. They went across the fields, between clover tops and
+sweet grasses, and flowers with pleasant faces; they marched, and then
+forgot to march. 'Lisbeth knew the way to the mile-stone, she knew which
+way the men had turned when they came to the forked road beyond. She
+remembered watching them out of sight. 'Lisbeth was sure she knew the
+way to London. They went beyond the forks of the road; they went a great
+way. The little boys began to find out that they had gone a great way.
+They began to look back for the church steeple, but it was gone; they
+began to look back for the mill; but there was none. They began to be
+afraid. 'Lisbeth was not afraid. She did not expect to see the church
+steeple. She did not expect to see the mill; she did not want to see
+them. She did want to see London.
+
+'Lisbeth looked so happy that the little boys forgot to march, and all
+drew up closer, and closer to 'Lisbeth; they were sure she must have
+something to be happy about. Nobody liked to say he did not feel happy,
+yet nobody was happy but 'Lisbeth. All these boys usually were very
+happy, can you tell me why they did not feel happy now? Dickon was the
+first to find out that everybody was keeping very close to 'Lisbeth;
+that nobody looked pleased but 'Lisbeth.
+
+"It's a dreadful way to London," said Dickon.
+
+"I s'pose it is, Dickon; but don't be 'scouraged," said 'Lisbeth,
+striding on faster and faster. If she had seen a church spire ahead she
+would have believed she saw a London spire.
+
+"S'pose we don't go to London," said Dickon, coming to a halt.
+
+"Well, s'pose we don't!" said almost all the voices, some high and some
+low; but 'Lisbeth almost gasped, "We will! we must! We've gone a
+dreadful way, we cannot go back any more."
+
+But the little boys were bigger than 'Lisbeth; they knew now that she
+had made a mistake; they thought she might make a mistake about getting
+to London; they began to think they had made a mistake themselves.
+
+'Lisbeth stood stamping in the road; she stood stamping and crying as
+hard as she could, but even Dickon began running toward the mile-stone,
+and what could she do but turn around and run too? She could do nothing
+else. She ran as fast as her feet would take her, but her feet were
+tired. The boys' feet were not as tired; the most of them were bigger
+than hers; they were bigger and not so tired, so they ran faster.
+
+'Lisbeth was left somewhere, I do not know where; left away off on the
+road carrying her flag, and trotting along at a great rate by herself.
+This was what she got by taking the boys. She sighed over her mistake,
+and she concluded that even Dickon would not have cared had she been
+packed in a bag, and, indeed, it seemed he did not.
+
+To be sure Dickon remembered her after a while, and ran as fast as he
+could to find her, and see that she was all safe and give her a kiss
+under her funny little hat to make it all right. But 'Lisbeth felt
+herself hurt beyond measure, as well she might; only, if people will
+make mistakes they must take the consequences. If people will choose the
+boys when they should choose the girls, what can they expect; and if
+they will want to grow in London instead of wanting to grow where God
+put them, what can they expect? If we want to be very comfortable we
+must be contented where we find ourselves.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+
+The boys did not run very, very long before they saw the mill, and the
+steeple; they chased along the path in high glee after that, and did a
+great many things beside chasing along the path. But they all got home
+so long before the mothers came from the mill, that the mothers never
+knew that they had ever started for London until they were told. You may
+be sure they were glad that their boys had at length remembered what a
+naughty, foolish thing they were doing.
+
+But how the girls laughed! You may well know that the girls were pleased
+enough to see the boys come back. They laughed because the boys had been
+silly enough to start, and they laughed because they pretended to be
+amused at their coming back after they had started, but you and I know
+that they were glad enough that they did come back.
+
+As to 'Lisbeth, she held her head very high when the girls met her. She
+did not like being laughed at. They asked her a great many questions
+about London, and asked her why she did not stay, and how she liked the
+boys for company. It was very trying. Anybody but 'Lisbeth would have
+cried, or flown in a passion, but 'Lisbeth did not do either. So then
+the girls stopped laughing at her, and talked of something else.
+'Lisbeth would not talk of anything else. She was not contented enough
+in the place where she grew to talk of anything else yet. She believed
+the girls would have done better than the boys; that she had made a
+mistake.
+
+Everybody liked 'Lisbeth. She was not always doing naughty, foolish
+things like going to London, so the girls were ready to listen to her.
+She told them how the boys had behaved, and what she thought of them,
+and how determined she was to go to London, and how she believed that
+the girls would have behaved better, and invited them to start with her
+the very next day; and if there ever was a silly little girl in all the
+world, it was 'Lisbeth.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The girls talked to their mothers that night about 'Lisbeth's
+invitation, which was just the proper thing to do. The mothers were
+sorry that 'Lisbeth was not better contented in the place where she
+found herself; they were so sorry that they concluded to try to make her
+better contented, so they told the big girls that they might go, but the
+very little ones must stay at home. A couple of little ones stole away
+with the rest and came to great trouble afterward, but the larger girls
+went with 'Lisbeth.
+
+'Lisbeth was delighted the next day when the girls said that they would
+go; she had been thinking so much about it that she was unhappy.
+
+You should have seen them the next day when they started. They were a
+pretty party. 'Lisbeth carried no stick this time, but a little basket,
+and generally managed to keep in front. There were ten of them. I think
+the old mile-stone would have laughed if it could, when it saw so many
+sweet faces bend over it to read about the miles, but then, of course,
+it could not.
+
+'Lisbeth had walked so far, and run so much the day before, that she was
+tired a little soon; she was even very tired indeed, by the time she
+reached the mile-stone. No one else thought of being tired, they had
+been quietly playing at home the day before. 'Lisbeth did not say that
+she was tired, yet she really was.
+
+The girls' hands were full of flowers, their baskets and arms were full
+of flowers; they made balls of flowers and played with them as they
+walked. They left the mile-stone far away; they left the mill and the
+steeple far out of sight; they came to fields which were new to them.
+'Lisbeth grew more tired at every step.
+
+"We must hurry and get there," said 'Lisbeth, and they all hurried; but
+they could every one hurry faster than 'Lisbeth without getting so
+tired; all except the little naughty ones who stole away, but even they
+were not as tired as 'Lisbeth, they had not walked so far and been so
+tired the day before.
+
+"I know we've come a dreadful long way," said 'Lisbeth; but nobody
+seemed to think so, they all went on as fast as they could. 'Lisbeth
+went on as fast as she could.
+
+"I 'most think we've come a hundred miles," said 'Lisbeth.
+
+"Oh no, we have not come many miles at all; it will take us all
+to-night, and to-morrow, and the next night, and more days and nights
+besides," said one of the girls, and the rest were all sure it would.
+
+"A hundred miles won't take that many days."
+
+"Yes they will; they will take longer," said one girl, and the rest said
+so too.
+
+"But we will want supper."
+
+"We cannot have any."
+
+'Lisbeth was not pleased.
+
+"We must have some."
+
+"We cannot have any till we get to London."
+
+'Lisbeth was sure they must have some, but could not think in such a
+minute how to get it.
+
+"We will fish some up," said 'Lisbeth, looking at the water.
+
+But nobody had any fish-hooks, though there was the water and perhaps
+the fish.
+
+"We will flim in and catch some," but nobody would allow 'Lisbeth to
+swim in and catch some.
+
+"We will get some supper from a house."
+
+"We have no money."
+
+'Lisbeth looked down as she walked. She was perplexed.
+
+"We cannot have supper to-night, nor to-morrow night, nor the next
+night; nor breakfast, nor dinner." 'Lisbeth looked up and smiled; she
+thought they were making sport about it, but the girls' faces were quite
+serious; besides, she began to wonder herself where supper and dinner
+would come from.
+
+"We must hurry most dreadful; the sun is skimming down low," said
+'Lisbeth; indeed it began to look late.
+
+"Oh we will walk all night, and all day, and to-morrow night, and the
+next day and night and--"
+
+"I won't," said 'Lisbeth, very decidedly.
+
+"You must."
+
+"I won't; I'm most dreadful tired now."
+
+"There's no house to sleep in; no, not even in London."
+
+'Lisbeth looked up at the girl in distress, then off in the distance.
+
+"Not even in London!" repeated 'Lisbeth; "not even in London."
+
+'Lisbeth wanted to stand still.
+
+"Come along!" said several voices; but 'Lisbeth did not wish to come
+along, and the little girls who were naughty and stole away were crying
+as hard as they could cry.
+
+"You must; you wanted to go, and we started, and you must go."
+
+"But I'm tired; I want to think a minute."
+
+"The sun is almost down."
+
+"I want to go home," said 'Lisbeth.
+
+"We want to go to London, and if you do not go now you can never go."
+
+'Lisbeth stood up very tall. She was very grave. She looked straight
+ahead of her.
+
+"I will go back; I will never go," said 'Lisbeth.
+
+Then they all went back, and 'Lisbeth never knew how pleasant home was,
+how good supper was, how dear mother was, how long a hundred miles must
+be, till she had managed to get back and fly into mother's arms, and eat
+mother's supper, and go to bed in the nice comfortable place where she
+belonged.
+
+'Lisbeth was very sick and very sore, and very uncomfortable for many
+days after trying to get to London, and did not forget very soon how far
+a hundred miles must be.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+
+'Lisbeth did not talk any more about London for a great while after
+that. She may have thought about it, but she did not do any more. She
+talked about other things. And she grew tall much faster, I have no
+doubt, than she would have done in London. The country air was good, and
+made her grow fast. You will see in the picture that she looks taller
+than she did when she stood thinking by the mile-stone. As she stood
+there, that day, she was listening to Philip McGreagor, a little boy who
+lived down the road, and Dickon was listening too.
+
+Dickon and 'Lisbeth were dressed in their very best clothes. 'Lisbeth's
+dress was quite new. A very pretty blue with dark speckles. Dickon was
+sorry they had on their best clothes after listening to Philip. Philip
+was going to be rich. He had found a pearl in a mussel in a brook; why
+should he not find a million?
+
+Why could not 'Lisbeth find a million?
+
+'Lisbeth thought she could find a million; she thought she might be
+as rich as Philip; then she could go to London.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+'Lisbeth and Dickon had been told not to go beyond the roller which laid
+on the pathway at a little distance from the house. Mother was home. It
+was a holiday. She wanted her children under her eyes. Besides, she had
+dressed them in their very best clothes. She bought those clothes; she
+had made them; she was a little bit proud of them.
+
+'Lisbeth forgot the roller; forgot the mother home from the mill; forgot
+the very best clothes; forgot everything but the mussels and the brook,
+and Dickon forgot them too. There must be mussels in the brook, and
+pearls in the mussels. They would wade for them; they could see them at
+the bottom of the stream. They ran along the road to the woods; along
+the wood's path to the brook. Dickon took off his shoes. 'Lisbeth forgot
+to take off her shoes. They waded along in the water.
+
+'Lisbeth at first held the blue dress out of the water; then she forgot
+to hold it out of the water; then she slipped on a stone, and fell in,
+and Dickon slipped, and splashed in the water in trying to keep her up;
+and the water, which had been clear as crystal, threw up its mud in
+indignation. They climbed out of the mud upon the grass, and looked at
+each other.
+
+'Lisbeth had lost her shoes. Dickon looked at his own. They were all he
+had of his very best rig. How could they ever get home? Dickon tried to
+wipe the mud off, to wring it out, but 'Lisbeth would not be wrung out;
+she said she did not mind. But she did mind, because she would not walk
+or sit down, or do anything for a few minutes but stand and look. Then
+she told Dickon to come with her. He came, and they went down to
+Dillon's cottage.
+
+"Please, Mr. Dillon, put me in the wheelbarrow," said 'Lisbeth. But
+Dillon only stopped smoking his pipe to laugh.
+
+"Please, Mr. Dillon, very fast put me in a wheelbarrow," said 'Lisbeth,
+growing excited, "and roll me home." And Mr. Dillon did.
+
+'Lisbeth's mother looked from the door. She saw the wheelbarrow; she saw
+Dillon's coat over something in the wheelbarrow. And other people
+looked from their doors and saw them too. 'Lisbeth's mother was not
+pleased when she saw what was in the wheelbarrow, and 'Lisbeth was no
+nearer getting to London than she had been before, because they were
+poorer instead of richer. 'Lisbeth's mother cried over the spoiled
+clothes. 'Lisbeth felt very badly about them, so did Dickon, but feeling
+badly did not bring them back. They were nothing, from that time, but
+stained, and washed, and faded clothes instead of brand new ones.
+
+'Lisbeth thought about the clothes so much that she concluded she should
+try to do something to buy more. She began to think she was getting big
+enough. She contrived a great many ways, but she could not seem to
+decide upon anything.
+
+There was an old hogshead under the walnut tree, very high and old. When
+she had anything very important to think about she liked to climb up and
+sit on the top of the hogshead. She never allowed anybody to sit there
+with her. She climbed up on the hogshead and sat very still, thinking
+how to manage about the new clothes.
+
+Suddenly she had a pleasant thought; she believed she had a thought
+that would answer. She jumped up and down so suddenly and so hard that
+the hogshead tried to move its head out of the way. It was scarcely
+polite for 'Lisbeth to jump so hard on its head. It did move its
+head--or a part of it--and 'Lisbeth sat inside the hogshead instead of
+outside of it.
+
+The mother found her there when she came home. Had 'Lisbeth picked the
+beans, as mother had told her to do, instead of trying to think about
+doing something else, she would not have been obliged to sit in the
+hogshead's mouth, nor to have eaten her porridge without beans.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+
+'Lisbeth was awake bright and early next day; she had business to attend
+to.
+
+Mother told her to be a good girl and take care of Trotty. 'Lisbeth said
+she would. I suppose she thought she would, but she forgot Trotty very
+soon, for she saw neighbor Gilham across the hill driving his sheep.
+
+Away she went running and skipping. She could scarcely wait to get to
+neighbor Gilham; but she was obliged to wait, for the path across the
+field and up to the hill was quite winding; she was obliged to follow
+the path.
+
+"Good morning," said 'Lisbeth, at length coming near neighbor Gilham.
+
+"Good morning," said he; "what brought you so far from home?"
+
+"I came on business," said 'Lisbeth; "very important."
+
+"Indeed! where are you going?"
+
+"Nowhere. I'm going to be a sheep-boy. I made up my mind to 't
+yesterday, only I got in the hogshead."
+
+"And whose sheep are you going to mind?"
+
+"Yours. I want to get money to buy a new dress, because I tumbled in the
+mud and spoiled my blue speckled, and I want to get rich to go to
+London."
+
+"Hi! hi! that is it; and you are going to be a sheep-boy?"
+
+"Yes, sir, please go home."
+
+"I cannot have a sheep-boy with skirts, he must have pants; the sheep
+would not like a sheep-boy with skirts."
+
+'Lisbeth hung down her head; she began pulling some berries which grew
+among the brambles. She did not say another word to Mr. Gilham; she only
+ran down the path. Mr. Gilham giggled a little to see her go. Mr. Gilham
+fell asleep; fell, rather into a doze. It did not seem to him many
+minutes from the time when he saw her run down the path, till he heard
+her say: "Please go home, sir."
+
+"Who are you?" said Mr. Gilham, rousing up.
+
+"I'm the sheep-boy 'Lisbeth Lillibun."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"I cannot have a sheep-boy in borrowed trousers," said Mr. Gilham, very
+decidedly; "it would not do."
+
+"Yes it would! Dickon said I might borrow 'm; yes it would do very much
+indeed."
+
+Mr. Gilham was so positive that it would not do that 'Lisbeth began to
+cry.
+
+"Sheep-boys never cry, never," said Mr. Gilham, and 'Lisbeth wiped her
+eyes as fast as she could.
+
+"Please to go home very fast," said 'Lisbeth, but Mr. Gilham only
+laughed, which made 'Lisbeth very uncomfortable.
+
+"Please to don't laugh so much," said 'Lisbeth; "more people 'n me tend
+to business."
+
+"Sheep-boys must keep big dogs away; they would kill the sheep."
+
+"Yes, when I see 'm coming."
+
+"Sheep-boys must drive away men; they would steal the sheep."
+
+"Yes; of course," said 'Lisbeth, trying to look very tall.
+
+"Sheep-boys must keep away lions, and tigers, and bears."
+
+"Did you ever drive away any tigers and lions and bears, Mr. Gilham?"
+inquired 'Lisbeth, looking straight in his eyes.
+
+"I never did, but my sheep-boy must; that is what I want a sheep-boy
+for."
+
+"He can't if there are none," said 'Lisbeth, looking very wise.
+
+"But there might be."
+
+"I don't think there might be."
+
+"But if there should be?"
+
+"I'll--run and tell you," said 'Lisbeth.
+
+Neighbor Gilham decided that this would never do, and 'Lisbeth thought
+him unreasonable enough, but she felt half inclined to stamp her foot at
+him, and tell him to go home, but he looked so big and idle; he looked
+too big and idle to get home. She thought it was a pretty business, and
+so it was. She concluded that she had gone into the hogshead's mouth for
+nothing, and so she had.
+
+She had much better been picking beans that afternoon, to put in her own
+mouth, but people who are not contented with doing the right thing in
+the right place, often fall into worse places than the hogshead's
+mouth, and get into more business than they care to find.
+
+"Please to tell me what I'm going to do?" inquired 'Lisbeth.
+
+"You are going to run home and mind Trotty," replied neighbor Gilham.
+
+'Lisbeth was indignant enough.
+
+"Dickon can mind Trotty; he's mind'n her now. I'm not a minder."
+
+"I thought you did not look like a minder. Sheep-boys are all minders,
+every one of them, so run home."
+
+'Lisbeth stood looking at him over her shoulder. She was too indignant
+for words.
+
+"If you want to grow rich," said neighbor Gilham, a little bit sorry for
+her--a little bit sorry not to help her in getting into business--"if
+you want to get rich, go hunt in all the flowers between here and home;
+maybe you'll find one with a gold heart."
+
+'Lisbeth looked over her shoulder at him again very fiercely, and did
+not say a word; then she walked down the path. She would not let
+neighbor Gilham see her hold up the flower cups and look in, or unroll
+the buds to peep toward the heart; she would not let him see her, but
+she did it for all that.
+
+When she began she did not know when to stop. She hunted and hunted and
+looked and looked. She found the sweetest bells among the grass, but she
+never knew that they were sweet at all, she was only looking in every
+bell for gold. She found the brightest flower faces looking up at her,
+but never knew that they were bright. She tossed them away from her. She
+found neither pence nor pounds. She found the prettiest flower-lips
+trying to speak to her, as she bent over them, but she heard nothing
+that they said, she heard not a breath; she scarcely saw that the lips
+were pretty at all. Had she heard they would have told her to be content
+with the flower hearts, just as she found them; that they would give her
+themselves with their bright faces and patient hearts, which were better
+than hard hearts of gold. They would have told her to be content with
+growing where she was, and never to think about the world beyond the
+mile-stone, for contentment is better than gold itself. They would have
+told her to mind Trotty, and pick beans, and help mother, which was the
+dearest, best, and happiest work she could ever find; but 'Lisbeth would
+not hear, she would not hear at all.
+
+She did not know that neighbor Gilham could see her from the hill. She
+forgot all about Gilham; she forgot all about mother and Trotty; forgot
+everything which she should have remembered, though she found no gold.
+Neighbor Gilham should never have sent her hunting for what he knew she
+could not find, he should not have told her to hunt for gold in the
+flower-hearts; he should have rather told her to listen to the lesson of
+the flowers and be content.
+
+But neighbor Gilham did not tell her this, and she did not think of it,
+and though she came home no richer, she was hustled to bed before
+twilight and for her supper had neither porridge with nor porridge
+without the beans.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+
+When 'Lisbeth's mother came home from the mill and found out how matters
+were going; when 'Lisbeth came home in Dickon's suit, from hunting for
+gold, she felt very certain that 'Lisbeth was not as good as many little
+girls were, and this made her sigh very deeply. Then she tried to think
+how to make her better; she scarcely knew how to begin, but she thought
+the best way, perhaps, would be to send her to school with Gorham, and
+let Dickon, who was a better "minder" than 'Lisbeth, take care of
+Trotty.
+
+'Lisbeth was not pleased at all. She did not think she would like to go
+to school, but her mother did not ask her opinion; it was not worth
+while.
+
+'Lisbeth went to school the next morning. The school teacher smiled at
+'Lisbeth when she came in. 'Lisbeth did not smile; she looked very
+serious indeed.
+
+"How do you do, my dear?" said the teacher.
+
+"I do what I like, ma'am, most times," said 'Lisbeth. This was very
+improper, but 'Lisbeth did not know it; she believed she had answered
+correctly.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Miss Pritchet was not pleased, she only said, "Sit down, my dear," and
+'Lisbeth sat down.
+
+By and by Miss Pritchet told 'Lisbeth to come stand by her, and 'Lisbeth
+came.
+
+"What have you been learning, little girl?" inquired Miss Pritchet.
+
+"I've been learning the way all around the country, and how to spike
+minnows in the mill race, and--"
+
+"Tut, tut!" said Miss Pritchet. "I mean have you been learning to read
+and write and spell?"
+
+"No 'm, I never learned those at all, only to spell."
+
+"Then you will like to learn I know; you will like to learn lessons."
+
+"Is there anything about London in 'm?"
+
+"About London?"
+
+"Yes 'm. London is a hundred miles away. I learned that a time ago."
+
+"When you can read you can learn more about London if you wish to; you
+will find it in the books."
+
+"Yes 'm I want to," said Lisbeth. "I wish to live there."
+
+"You must learn to be satisfied where you are," said Miss Pritchet; "you
+must not want to go to London."
+
+"I mean to."
+
+"I thought you were a good little girl; good little girls are satisfied
+here."
+
+"Are they?"
+
+"Yes, they are; you must be satisfied here."
+
+"But I don't mean to be."
+
+"Oh!" said Miss Pritchet.
+
+"I mean to get to London very fast," continued 'Lisbeth.
+
+"Little girls who do not like to live where they find themselves often
+come to great trouble," said Miss Pritchet, with the corners of her
+mouth all drawn down.
+
+"Maybe I may like to grow where I find myself when I get to London,"
+said 'Lisbeth a little despairingly.
+
+"You are not a very good little girl, I am afraid," said Miss Pritchet,
+but 'Lisbeth could not think why Miss Pritchet said such a thing.
+
+"Get your book now and come spell."
+
+"Yes 'm," said 'Lisbeth, like the best little girl that ever was.
+
+"Can you spell?"
+
+"Yes 'm. Is London in this book? it begins with an L."
+
+"Tut! tut!" said Miss Pritchet, "let me hear you spell that line."
+
+'Lisbeth spelled, she spelled better than Miss Pritchet had imagined.
+
+"That is a nice little girl. Now take your book and go learn this next
+line."
+
+'Lisbeth took the book and sat down to spell. She got along nicely for a
+little way; then she came to the word aisle. She did not like the
+appearance of it. She did not like it at all. She ran up to Miss
+Pritchet's desk.
+
+"What does this spell?" she inquired.
+
+"That is aisle," said Miss Pritchet.
+
+"Aisle!" repeated 'Lisbeth; "I do not like spelling aisle with a i s l
+e; I like i l e."
+
+"Hush, my dear."
+
+"But I don't like it," persisted 'Lisbeth. "If I don't like it I don't."
+
+"Go and sit down at once," commanded Miss Pritchet.
+
+'Lisbeth went and sat down. She learned every word but aisle. 'Lisbeth
+was a very foolish little girl not to learn aisle.
+
+"Come here, my dear," said Miss Pritchet; she gave 'Lisbeth the words.
+'Lisbeth spelled them very well. Then said Miss Pritchet, "aisle--"
+
+"I did not learn it," said 'Lisbeth. "I said I did not like it and I
+don't."
+
+"But you must learn it, if you like it or not."
+
+"I must?" said 'Lisbeth, in astonishment.
+
+"Of course you must; we all must do a great many things which we do not
+like."
+
+"I don't mean to," said 'Lisbeth.
+
+Miss Pritchet was astonished.
+
+"You must."
+
+"What must I do beside learning to spell aisle?"
+
+"Nothing now!"
+
+"Oh," said 'Lisbeth, reassured; "I thought you said we must all do a
+great many things."
+
+"Go sit down this minute," commanded Miss Pritchet, and 'Lisbeth sat
+down, and she learned aisle, but she did not get home until very late,
+because Miss Pritchet said that such a very improperly behaved child
+should never go home at a proper time, from her school; but 'Lisbeth
+could not see, with all her trying, what she had been improper about.
+Had she learned aisle, though she did not want to? Certainly she had.
+
+Besides being perplexed about this, she was a little vexed with Miss
+Pritchet about something else. She had been given to understand that
+there was something about London in the books. She had been spelling
+words half the day and had not come to London. She spelled and spelled,
+but did not come to London. She felt herself imposed upon; she felt
+herself very much imposed upon.
+
+"Please find London," asked 'Lisbeth at length of Miss Pritchet.
+
+"London indeed? Not for such an improper little girl. You must stop
+thinking about London, I say. You will be sorry if you do not stop. You
+must."
+
+"I must?" said 'Lisbeth, a little meekly. "I must, must I?"
+
+But as she said it her voice sounded very much as though it said, "If I
+cannot, how can I?"
+
+"Yes, you must;" and 'Lisbeth went and sat down to think about it.
+
+This was 'Lisbeth's first day at school and she had a great many more
+days at school, and learned a great many things every day, but one thing
+she did not manage to learn at all--to stop thinking about London.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+
+'Lisbeth did not find any word in her lesson the next day which she did
+not like. She spelled them over, and concluded that she liked them all
+pretty well. One word she looked at quite hard before she concluded that
+she liked them all, but she found out that she did not object to it. She
+spelled them so nicely that Miss Pritchet was quite pleased, and
+'Lisbeth had a little more time than she had the day before, to look
+around and find out what next was to be done.
+
+Jemmy Jenkins sat next to her; he was older than 'Lisbeth, but that did
+not make any matter; he whispered to 'Lisbeth behind his slate. She
+thought after this that she knew Jemmy Jenkins better than anybody else.
+
+At recess she and Jemmy Jenkins had a great deal of fun and jumped over
+Miss Pritchet's garden plot seventeen times each, without getting in the
+middle of it more than twice.
+
+"Say, Jemmy," said 'Lisbeth, "I think this flower plot would look nice
+with its roots stuck up."
+
+"How?" inquired Jemmy, ready for anything new and agreeable.
+
+"This way," replied 'Lisbeth, and she seized a pretty marguerite in
+bloom, dug it up with a stick, and planted it upside down; the stick to
+which it was tied for support she propped under it to keep the roots in
+the air, for the marguerites have little tender stems.
+
+Nobody happened to see. Jemmy thought this would be very nice. He ran
+and got the spade, and took out his knife to cut sticks, and they soon
+turned Miss Pritchet's plants upside down, with the flowers in the
+ground, and the roots in the air, and nobody caught them at it. They
+washed off the mud at the pump, and then the bell rang and they all went
+in to school.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Miss Pritchet looked from the window; she caught a glimpse of the garden
+plot; she caught a glimpse of the roots in the air; she gave a little
+cry and ran to the door.
+
+'Lisbeth had forgotten the marguerites. She was trying to squeeze a
+big knot through the little hole in her shoe.
+
+"Who did this?" Miss Pritchet almost screamed.
+
+"I don't know 'm!" replied everybody in a minute, seeing something had
+happened. 'Lisbeth called, "Don't know 'm!" together with the rest,
+without knowing what the confusion was about. When she found out what it
+was about, she only said "oh!"
+
+Miss Pritchet looked at her. She looked at Miss Pritchet.
+
+"Did you do that?" inquired Miss Pritchet, pointing to the marguerites.
+
+"Do what?" inquired 'Lisbeth as politely as she could.
+
+"Uproot my flowers."
+
+"Were they yours?"
+
+"Did you do it?"
+
+"Yes 'm," replied 'Lisbeth, trying to look as though nothing had
+happened. "I didn't think anybody tended 'm."
+
+"What did you do it for?"
+
+"To give 'm air," replied 'Lisbeth. "Please 'm may Susan Jordan put
+this string in my shoe, it won't never go in?"
+
+"Come here this moment, you improper child!" said Miss Pritchet.
+
+'Lisbeth dropped her shoe-string and cowered up to Miss Pritchet like a
+startled dove.
+
+"Didn't you know better?"
+
+"No 'm, I never did."
+
+"You will!"
+
+"Will I? I want to know as much as I can," said 'Lisbeth.
+
+Need I say that Miss Pritchet taught her at once what it was to put the
+roots of marguerites to air? I need not tell you, I know. But one thing
+I will tell you, 'Lisbeth bore her punishment by herself, and never told
+on Jemmy Jenkins; but Jemmy Jenkins was man enough to tell on himself,
+which was much the best way, and pleased Miss Pritchet so much that she
+broke off both punishments clear in the middle, and told 'Lisbeth and
+Jemmy Jenkins that she would try not to remember about the marguerites
+at all, if they would try never to do so any more.
+
+Yet when 'Lisbeth, upon starting for home, told her that she had
+learned one thing that day, she had learned not to put the roots of
+marguerites to air, Miss Pritchet looked very stern, for which 'Lisbeth
+could not account at all.
+
+Gorham felt very much ashamed in having his sister treat Miss Pritchet's
+marguerites in such an unfeeling manner; he felt very much ashamed
+indeed. Gorham was a very proper boy; he did not like to have his sister
+called an improper child. He would like to have told Miss Pritchet so,
+only that would have been improper. He was not pleased with Miss
+Pritchet; he was not pleased with 'Lisbeth; he was not pleased with
+Jemmy Jenkins.
+
+After school he told Jemmy Jenkins what he thought of it; that it was
+not proper to treat anybody's marguerites in such a manner; that he was
+older and bigger and wiser than 'Lisbeth, and should have told her
+better; and Jemmy Jenkins sat on a log rubbing his fingers together and
+thinking that Gorham was not making any mistakes at all, though he,
+himself, had made a great mistake when he helped 'Lisbeth plant the
+marguerites with the roots up.
+
+Jemmy Jenkins felt very much ashamed of himself, very much ashamed
+indeed, which was the very best way for him to feel, as he would not be
+likely, after feeling so much ashamed of himself, to do so again.
+
+'Lisbeth told her mother that she was learning a great deal at school;
+then the mother smiled, but when she heard about the marguerites she did
+not smile, she looked as stern as she could, and 'Lisbeth thought this
+was beyond bearing, for everybody to look stern when she was learning
+and improving.
+
+But 'Lisbeth did improve, she improved a great deal, only after she had
+been at school with Miss Pritchet a couple of years it turned out that
+'Lisbeth could not stay any longer with Miss Pritchet, could not stay
+any longer where she grew, but must go to a new place, and go a great
+way to get to it; in fact, after a great deal of talking, and a great
+deal of thinking, and a great deal of planning, 'Lisbeth's mother found
+that she must--she could not help it, she could do nothing better--she
+must go to live in London.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+
+Now 'Lisbeth had never given up counting the miles to London. She had
+counted them up by tens many a time; she had counted them up by
+twenties; she had counted them up every way there was to count them, but
+they continued to be a great many miles. When she learned that she was
+going to grow in a new place, she believed that nothing would ever
+trouble her any more; that the world would be made over new.
+
+'Lisbeth could not help in getting ready; if she had done less in
+getting ready she might have helped her mother more. But mother helped
+herself. She sold a great many things, and she left a great many things
+to be sent after her, and she carried a great many things with her.
+
+Mother cried when she left the old house, but 'Lisbeth did not cry, she
+danced about on the points of her toes, till she laughed herself quite
+red in the face. 'Lisbeth had always been a little foolish about
+London.
+
+'Lisbeth had wished a great while to go to London. She might have been a
+great deal happier in the beautiful place where she grew if she had not
+wished so hard; she had wished very hard and she got there. She had
+always believed that London was delightful; now she knew it was. She had
+lived in a dear little mite of a house, now she would live in a tall
+one. She had lived next and near to a great many people, now she would
+live under the roof with a great many people. She had lived on a lane,
+now she would live on a--well, a street which was too little and short
+and narrow to be called a street.
+
+'Lisbeth knew she had come to London because she was poorer, instead of
+because she was richer, but that did not make any difference. At the end
+of the street too little to be called a street, was a real, true, broad
+street, with fine houses packed together from one end to the other end
+of it.
+
+'Lisbeth slipped down the stairs, and along the little street to the
+corner. She threw up her hands in admiration. She looked up and down in
+delight. It was a fine thing to live in London, a very great and fine
+thing indeed. She ran quite out of the little street to look up and
+down the greater one.
+
+She saw the windows in rows, blazing with lights. She clapped her hands;
+she was delighted. She heard children's voices from an open window. She
+climbed stealthily up to the window and looked in. Six children appeared
+before her, with very sweet faces, and pretty clothes, and the lights
+flashed down upon them from overhead.
+
+They were playing with dolls. They were playing so hard that they did
+not see 'Lisbeth clinging to the sill. They were pretending that the
+dolls were talking to each other, that the one was the man and the other
+the mistress. The mistress was telling the man to take off his hat; but
+he was a stubborn man, he would not take off his hat. Then the children
+all laughed, and 'Lisbeth laughed so much harder than anybody else, that
+they all looked up and saw her hanging to the sill; then she dropped
+suddenly, and forgot that she had to drop so far, and had she not caught
+by her skirt and hung to the iron railing of the area, nobody knows how
+she might have been broken and battered and bruised by falling down the
+area before she had been in London over night.
+
+But she caught to the spikes and her dress was strong; and the children
+all ran and saw her hanging to the spikes, and somebody lifted her over
+and stood her on her feet and turned her around to see what she looked
+like, and then she ran home as soon as she could find out which way to
+run.
+
+She found out that the big street was nicer than the little one; that
+the people on the big street were different from the people on the
+little one. She found out that all the houses and streets in London were
+not just alike, and she found this out before she had gone to sleep the
+first night, in the little black room, in the big dirty house, in the
+little black street. But she was not sorry she had come to London.
+
+She wondered if everybody who lived in London had such lovely dolls as
+the mistress, such wonderful dolls as the man she had seen. She wondered
+if there were many children in London who wore such pretty clothes, and
+who played under such flashing lights, and who had such shining
+glasses, and tables, and chairs, and wonderful furniture of all kinds in
+the rooms where they played, and she concluded there must be; this time
+she did not make a mistake, for there were.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+'Lisbeth noticed that her mother, and Gorham, and Dickon, and Trotty did
+not go in any rooms of the tall house but two; she found that these two
+were at the top of the house, and that they had nothing to do with those
+underneath; she found out that there was a great clatter in the house,
+and in the next houses, as though the whole town were talking; she
+wondered how she liked it; but she concluded that she liked it very
+much; she was living in London, how could she help liking it?
+
+Mother looked solemn, and the rooms looked black, and the things were
+tumbled upside down, and the air was hot, and the noise kept everybody
+awake, and everybody was half tired to death, and nothing was as bright
+as it might have been--not even the tallow candle--but they were in
+London, a hundred miles from the mile-stone; a hundred miles from the
+church steeple, and the mill, and the dear bit of a house where they had
+all grown, and rolled, and tumbled; and from the meadows with the
+flowers sleeping side by side; but they were in London, what did it
+matter?
+
+Yet if they really were in London, while they slept they dreamed they
+were playing, and walking and talking under the shadow of the church
+steeple, and by the mill, and chasing butterflies over the meadows where
+the flowers were fast asleep, and forgot that the rooms were black, and
+the air hot, and that things were not as they had been.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX.
+
+
+'Lisbeth learned a great many things very soon, though she was not at
+school. A very great many things indeed; and they were not always
+pleasant things. She learned, for one thing, that they grew poorer every
+day, instead of growing richer. She learned that the dirty little
+street, too little to be a real street, was not as pleasant to look upon
+as the garden plot at home, and the green of the fields over the way.
+She learned that mother grew thinner, and that the boys grew dirtier and
+crosser, and the people down stairs, she found out, were not like the
+mill hands at home, the mill hands and the little children.
+
+She saw a great many fine sights; she saw shops which made her open her
+eyes; and houses which astonished her to behold, and carriages which
+took her breath away, and people who overcame her altogether. She saw
+sights and shows such as she had never dreamed of; she saw a wax figure
+at the corner, with a fine curled wig, a figure which turned from side
+to side; she saw sights on every side to please her fancy, to delight
+her eyes, but only to make her remember afterward that she lived among a
+lot of dirty people, in two miserable old rooms, in a dirty little
+street; that she was really happier in the place where she grew first
+than in the place where she grew last; that made her wonder why she had
+ever sighed, and sighed, and wished to get a hundred miles away from
+that precious old mile-stone.
+
+She was not contented in London a bit more than she had been contented
+playing in the shadow of the steeple and of the mill. She was not
+contented at all. Had she learned to be contented under the shadow of
+the mill and the steeple, under the walnut tree, and among the flowers
+around the mile-stone, she might have smiled brighter smiles in the dark
+little room in the dirty old house, in the dirty little street in
+London. A bright, contented flower says the same sweet words in the
+fresh green fields, and in a little flower pot up in a London window; a
+contented little flower always wears a bright face. A contented heart is
+always cheerful.
+
+'Lisbeth had never been contented. She was always wishing to be
+somewhere else. She was not contented before she went to London, that
+was the reason why she was not contented when she reached there.
+
+'Lisbeth tried to find some nice little London girl to talk to; she
+tried first to find a great many, then she tried to find one; she tried
+to find some nice little London boys; then she tried to find one nice
+little London boy; but the boys and the girls had not been taught to be
+very nice, in the dirty old house in the dirty little street, and though
+some of them had good enough faces, they had not pleasant ways, nor
+pleasant words.
+
+When Gorham and Dickon wanted to play they found nobody but boys who
+were not comfortable boys to play with; at first they did not play with
+those uncomfortable boys at all; then they played with them a little,
+and then they played with them more, so that Dickon and Gorham became
+after a time not as good and pleasant themselves as they once were.
+
+One day there were some new people came to live in a room down stairs; a
+mother and father and three little boys. They looked as though they had
+never lived in such a dirty street before. They were good little boys,
+with pleasant ways, and pleasant words, and very pleasant faces.
+
+'Lisbeth liked to peep in and help them play; she liked to play with
+them very much; they made her feel happier. 'Lisbeth had come to London,
+but she was not very happy; she did not say so, but it was true just the
+same.
+
+These little boys had no toys to play with, but they were good and
+contented just the same. They played with whatever came in their way;
+they were as happy in playing with the old chairs as many boys are with
+their rocking-horses. They were contented little boys. But they were
+very poor; 'Lisbeth knew they were; she was very sorry that they were so
+poor, but they were not. They did not care at all. She was sorry that
+the mother and father had to leave them so much alone; perhaps they may
+have been sorry themselves about this, I do not know.
+
+How 'Lisbeth laughed when she saw them playing with the brooms. They
+made a procession, that is they all walked in a line; the tallest at the
+head, and the little one coming last, and each one carried a brush or
+broom with a long handle, and if soldiers were ever proud of their guns,
+so were these little boys proud. Perhaps they were more proud than
+soldiers with guns.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+'Lisbeth knew that these little boys were alone a great deal, because
+their mother and father were so poor, and were obliged to go and earn
+all they could, and she used to run in very often to see how they
+managed. But these were contented little boys; they were contented where
+they found themselves, and that was the reason why they got along so
+well.
+
+If they had been discontented they would have gone out of their mother's
+rooms into other rooms in the house, and then into the street, and into
+the gutter. Then they would have become soiled and spoiled, and changed
+altogether, but they were contented with their mother's rooms, and her
+chairs and tables, and frying pans, and brooms, and all the things which
+they found there; so they did not get soiled or spoiled or changed, but
+kept good and bright, pleasant little pictures as you would find in a
+day's walk.
+
+'Lisbeth found, after she came to London, that there was a great deal
+to be done besides play; she had to learn to sew and help mother earn
+some money, but she was not very big and could not do much, only try.
+
+At first 'Lisbeth believed she could make a great deal of money. She
+knew people must make money in London; she had heard so. Besides, people
+seemed to spend so much that there must be some way of getting it.
+'Lisbeth was sure there was. She tried to make money in several ways.
+This was a mistake; she should have been content with trying to help all
+she could at home, and then mother would have had more time, and so
+could have made more money, which would have helped them all. But this
+was not 'Lisbeth's way of doing. She tried to make a way of her own.
+
+One day 'Lisbeth saw a little boy sweeping a street crossing; she had
+seen boys do this before, but had never thought anything about it. This
+time she thought about it because she saw some gentleman drop a little
+coin in the little boy's hand. This was a revelation to 'Lisbeth; it
+taught her something which she did not know before.
+
+In another hour 'Lisbeth was sweeping a very dirty crossing, and she
+swept it and swept it over again; she swept until there really was not
+another speck to sweep, and the people, by the dozens and scores and
+hundreds walked over that crossing, and carried to it more mud for
+'Lisbeth to sweep away, but nobody put an atom of anything in 'Lisbeth's
+hand for sweeping it, though she stood there the whole long day; and she
+found out still another time that money was hard to pick up even in
+London, and if she stopped that day, in passing, as she generally did to
+look at the wax figure in the curled wig, at the corner of the street,
+she did not care a fig about it.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X.
+
+
+'Lisbeth was quite down-hearted that day after sweeping the crossing;
+she was discouraged enough, especially as her mother was greatly grieved
+at her going away and staying so long, and reproved her very severely.
+She felt very much discouraged indeed, but could not help believing in
+spite of it all that something would turn up, which would be bright and
+pleasant in such a fine city; she could not believe anything else.
+
+As she came home that day she popped her head in the door of the room on
+the lower floor, to see how matters were getting on there. She shut the
+door again carefully, without saying a word. On the floor were scattered
+many things, and in the corner, like so many leaves blown together, were
+the three little boys fast asleep.
+
+How tired they must have been; how hard they had played; indeed they had
+played too hard, for near them on the floor lay the remnants of mother's
+good sweeping brush which they had played quite to destruction. They
+were tired completely, and never knew that 'Lisbeth had looked in
+upon them to find out how they were getting along.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+I wonder what they were dreaming of as they slept; I believe they must
+have been pleasant dreams, unless they were dreaming about the broken
+brush--they were such comfortable-looking little faces, and they had
+such comfortable hearts, because they were good, and comfortable hearts
+help bring bright dreams.
+
+When the mother came home I think she must have smiled to see them
+heaped in the corner fast asleep, but I suppose she had found them
+heaped in a corner asleep many a time. I hope she did not scold very
+hard about the broken brush, and I am almost sure she did not.
+
+'Lisbeth, as I said before, felt very much discouraged that evening. She
+even felt dull the next morning, and the next afternoon. The mother had
+gone out that afternoon to take home some sewing; the boys were playing
+outside. 'Lisbeth had nobody to talk to. She concluded to talk to
+herself.
+
+She got up on a high three-legged stool in the corner, and sat with her
+face to the wall; she wanted to think. She could not think if she was
+looking out of the window, or around the room, or if she sat in
+every-day fashion on a chair or on the floor. She sat in the darkest
+corner she could find.
+
+"'Lisbeth Lillibun," she said to herself, "you have done nothing for
+yourself yet by coming to London; you have done nothing for yourself
+yet;" and it seemed that all the glasses and crockery on the table, and
+on the shelf, and even the coffee pot turned up on the stove to dry,
+jingled and rattled and laughed; but, of course, they did not.
+
+"You must be up and a-doing, 'Lisbeth; it is time;" then the tin tea
+pot, and the coffee pot, and the candlestick turned up on the stove to
+melt the old candle out, and the spider and the skillet and the dipper
+seemed, every one of them, to be giggling, and 'Lisbeth looked around at
+them; but of course it was only a fancy.
+
+"You have been making a goose of yourself, and most of all in sweeping a
+crossing dry for people to spatter with mud; you should be ashamed of
+yourself to be such a silly, and sitting where you are instead of being
+sitting somewhere else," and the tongs did clap together, and the poker
+did roll over, and the gridiron did give a clink against the wall, but I
+think the wind must have blown down the chimney.
+
+'Lisbeth was insulted, however; she did not believe in the tins and
+tongs making fun of her. She got down from the stool, and put her bonnet
+on, and then changed it for her hat with a ribbon tied around it, and
+then she went out where there were no tongs to clap at her; but of
+course it was only a fancy of 'Lisbeth's about the tongs, for how could
+a tongs clap unless it was clapped? It was wrong for 'Lisbeth to go out;
+her place was in the house.
+
+But she thought that it happened just as well that she did go out, for
+as she went down stairs she thought a thought, which she might never
+have thought had she remained sitting upon the stool.
+
+She went down stairs and along the little street to the corner, and
+opened the door of the store in the window of which stood the wax figure
+with its wig, which was standing still just then, instead of turning
+gracefully from side to side. She opened the door and went in.
+
+"What do you want, Sissy?" inquired a pleasant little man.
+
+"I want to stay, sir, and make wigs."
+
+"You want to stay and make wigs!"
+
+"Yes, sir, I do," replied 'Lisbeth.
+
+"Bless me!" exclaimed the pleasant little man, "this will not do."
+
+"Oh, yes, it will, sir," replied 'Lisbeth, untying the knot in the
+strings of her hat, "it will do very well. I have not been able to think
+of any thing that would do before."
+
+"But bless me!"
+
+"Indeed I will, sir, if that is all," said 'Lisbeth, wondering how to do
+it, but taking off her hat.
+
+"I don't want any wigs!"
+
+"You don't?" replied 'Lisbeth, filled with astonishment.
+
+"No, I don't; I really don't!"
+
+'Lisbeth saw that he had plenty of hair, and as he rubbed his head she
+supposed he was remembering this.
+
+"Other people do," said 'Lisbeth, reassured; "I see a good many of 'm
+every day who do; you can sell 'm."
+
+"Sell 'm? I do sell 'm. I sell 'm when I can; but bless me!"
+
+"Where shall I get the hair to make 'm of?" inquired 'Lisbeth, preparing
+to go to work.
+
+"But I don't want 'm!"
+
+"Oh!" replied 'Lisbeth, not a word else; but the pleasant little man
+snapped his fingers at her and beckoned her around the counter, and
+under the shelf of the beautiful big window, and made her screw herself
+up into a button which nobody could see, and pulled a curtain down over
+her, and showed her, before he pulled the curtain down, how to pull a
+wire very gently and tenderly to make the wax figure in the curled wig
+turn from side to side, and she did it.
+
+She pulled it this way, and she pulled it that way. She heard the people
+outside tramping up to the window and tramping away; she remembered how
+she had tramped up and tramped away. She laughed to hear them tramping,
+because she knew that a great many of them had their mouths open as
+well as their eyes, as they saw the wax figure, in a wig, turning from
+side to side. She would never open her mouth as well as her eyes again,
+when she saw a wax figure turning from side to side. She was certain she
+never would.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI.
+
+
+How long 'Lisbeth might have sat under the shelf, and under the curtain,
+earning pence and pulling wires, and forgetting that her mother was
+looking for her, had she not fallen into a doze, I cannot say. She might
+have been there till now; she might have been there ten years to come;
+but she did doze and she did wake up; she had swept the crossing hard
+enough the day before to be tired, and she was; she was tired, and it
+was coming night, and she did doze, and she did wake up, and she did
+wake up with a start which broke the wire, and twisted the head of the
+wax figure clear out of place, so that it looked in the shop instead of
+out of it, and made a confusion inside, and outside, and on all sides,
+seldom made by any wax figure in any wig since the beginning of time.
+
+'Lisbeth told the pleasant little man that she could not help it, and he
+told her that he could not help it, and 'Lisbeth went home--to be sure
+seven pence richer, but a good deal flustered and disappointed, and
+with the determination never again, while she lived and breathed, to
+have anything to do with, or even so much as to look at any wax figures
+or any wigs.
+
+'Lisbeth's mother told her that had she waited, and asked her advice,
+instead of leaving her to such distress in looking for her, she would
+have told her, in the beginning, to have nothing to do in the matter of
+wigs, with which she was not acquainted, and reproved her for staying
+away till the candle was lighted on the shelf; and 'Lisbeth, if she was
+no more unhappy than she had been when she stood by the mile-stone, was
+certainly no more happy.
+
+To be sure she was richer. Though she had broken the wire, the pleasant
+little man had given her seven pence, though she had gained nothing
+more; but the bother, now, was to know what to do with it. Had it been
+seven thousand pence she might, perhaps, have known better what to do
+with it; but seven pence were of so much more consequence; being a
+little it had to go a great way. There was no trifling to be done about
+it. She knew the importance of it. She was awake half the night
+considering how to spend it, and the other half she was dreaming of
+losing and finding it, until by morning her head was almost split in
+two.
+
+Had 'Lisbeth run home and given the seven pence to her mother to buy a
+nice platted loaf or a piece of bacon, her head had not almost split in
+two; but 'Lisbeth was always making trouble for herself. Though the
+thoughts and worry about the pence almost split her head, she was not in
+a condition in the morning to know what to do with the pence. She had
+her own pence and her own plan, had she had less of her own she would
+have been more comfortable. But 'Lisbeth was 'Lisbeth, and if her mother
+sighed about it, she could not see any way of making her anybody else.
+
+When breakfast was over that morning the mother went to carry some
+sewing home, and while she was gone 'Lisbeth thought she would go out
+too. This was very wrong; very wrong indeed, but 'Lisbeth did not wait
+to think about that. She took a basket when she went out, and she took
+her seven pence. She felt herself very important indeed, though really
+she was nobody but a disobedient little girl. She came to a cake shop
+where all kinds of cakes were to be bought.
+
+"I'm going to keep store," said 'Lisbeth to the shopman, "and I want
+some wonderful nice cakes."
+
+"You do, do you?" said the shopman; "let me see your money."
+
+"Seven pence," said 'Lisbeth, displaying it on the counter; "I want to
+spend it all."
+
+"You do, do you? Where's your store?"
+
+"In my basket," said 'Lisbeth, but there was nothing in her basket but a
+bit of brown paper.
+
+"What would you like to buy with your seven pence?" asked the shopman.
+
+"A great many things," said 'Lisbeth; "but I think I will buy some of
+these cakes."
+
+"Humph," said the shopman; "pick out nine of 'm."
+
+'Lisbeth picked them out. They were cakes of different shapes; quite a
+stock for seven pence, and no mistake.
+
+'Lisbeth arranged the cakes along the bottom of the basket in two rows;
+four in one row and five in the other. Then she started off. She never
+was more pleased in her life. She was more sure than ever that she was
+somebody, that she was somebody important. She expected that every one
+of those cakes would be gone before she had time to look around. She was
+surprised to find that instead of everybody stopping to look at them,
+nobody stopped to look at them at all. She was surprised to find
+everybody going by as though there was a pot of gold, at the other end
+of the street, which they were hurrying on to get, while they did not so
+much as glance at her, or at the cakes in her basket. This would never
+do. She would walk up and ask them to buy. So she walked up and asked
+them, but they did not hear her, or did not want to hear her, and did
+not stop walking as fast as they could, except one lady with two little
+girls who bought two for two pence.
+
+'Lisbeth thought these were nice little girls; she wished afterward she
+had asked them to buy four for four pence. Nobody else bought any. She
+walked and walked, and stood; and the mother came home and wondered
+where she was, and looked out of the window, and out of the door, and
+listened on the stairs, but could make nothing of it at all; and the
+fact was, that when the mother was listening on the stairs, and looking
+out of the doors, and sighing to herself about ever having come to
+London, 'Lisbeth was sound asleep, at the corner of the street, seated
+on the sidewalk with her back against the wall, and her basket standing
+beside her, and the mother might as well have listened for her feet as
+for the buzzing of a china bumble-bee with glass legs.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XII.
+
+
+'Lisbeth was asleep. She was tired enough to sleep well. She was better
+off asleep than awake; had you asked her she would have told you so. As
+she slept she dreamed, and as she dreamed the forms in the basket became
+living things, and the pence in her pocket changed to pounds, and things
+which were not became to her as though they were.
+
+In fact 'Lisbeth doubted that she was 'Lisbeth, and who knows but had
+she dreamed long enough she might have been the queen herself?
+
+The bird, in the basket, stood on its gingerbread legs, which were
+changed to real bird's legs, and it sung to her sweeter than the bird at
+the mile-stone sung on the post. The little dog forgot that it was
+gingerbread, and barked and sprung about, and shone like satin in its
+pretty black coat; it barked in a charming fashion. The cat? it was
+beautiful as only cats in dreams can be, as it sat on the handle of the
+basket; it was a beautiful picture to behold.
+
+But what amused and delighted her more than the bird or the cat or the
+dog, was the real live elephant which floated in the air without wings,
+and the two charming little angels, with little brass crowns, who sung
+sweeter than the bird itself, and blew about like thistle-down, and
+astonished her more than all the shows of London. But the most
+delightful gingerbread of all was the gingerbread parrot, which was no
+more a gingerbread, but a real, true, live, green and gold parrot which
+tapped at her hat and called, "Come, Lady 'Lisbeth, here is a coach and
+four, to ride to your door."
+
+Then 'Lisbeth woke up, and when she saw that the parrot and the angels
+and the elephant, and the dog and cat, and even the bird, which had been
+singing on the bottom of the basket were all gingerbread, she flew up in
+a passion and threw them all to the ground, and had them all to pick up
+again.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+When she went home she told her mother everything that had happened, and
+the mother told her something that was going to happen, and they had a
+great deal to say to each other. I think I would have said more to
+her than her mother did, but she said all she wanted to, which was
+possibly enough. But when she told 'Lisbeth what was going to happen,
+she expected to see 'Lisbeth fly up in a great passion; instead of this,
+however, 'Lisbeth began laughing, and laughed so hard that her mother
+had to pat her on the back to make her stop.
+
+In fact, when the mother was living with her children in the old home,
+and suddenly grew poorer, she had concluded to go to London, where she
+might sew, she thought, for large prices, and so get rich faster, but
+when, after she got to London, she found the prices were little, and her
+money was growing less, and her boys were getting spoiled, and 'Lisbeth
+was getting to do so many things she should not do, she wished she had
+never seen London.
+
+Then she began thinking that it would be just as easy not to see it any
+more, as it had been to come a hundred miles to see it. Then she
+concluded not to see it any more, and this was what she told 'Lisbeth
+when they both had so much to say to each other.
+
+The next morning 'Lisbeth awoke with the impression that something very
+pleasant had happened, or was about to happen.
+
+She forgot to help her mother clear away the breakfast dishes, and sat
+on the three-legged stool in the corner quite by herself, with her face
+to the wall. The mother saw her sitting there as she popped her head in
+the door, but she would not call her; she began to think she was
+grieving about leaving London, yet she might have known better by the
+delight of her morning embrace, if by nothing else. At any rate she
+would let her alone; she would let her think it out. So she cleared up
+the dishes and brushed up the floor, and put in the stitches, and packed
+her parcel and said "good-by" to 'Lisbeth, for she was going to the
+shop.
+
+'Lisbeth was yet on the stool when her mother went out of the door.
+
+"Bother!" she exclaimed, twirling about as she found herself alone.
+"'Lisbeth Lillibun you are a humbug, you are indeed. You are a humbug
+and no mistake; here you have been to London all this time and made only
+two pence, and seven gingerbreads, and here is your mother troubled for
+a bit of money to get back to the old place. Why is it you cannot help
+her?"
+
+Had 'Lisbeth remained sitting on the stool she would have continued
+talking to herself, which might have resulted in no harm, and might have
+kept her quiet and good, like a pleasant, dutiful child till the mother
+came, but 'Lisbeth leaped off of the stool as a thought came into her
+mind which might never have come there had she not leaped the moment she
+did.
+
+There was one trait in 'Lisbeth which is not in everybody. When 'Lisbeth
+concluded to do a thing she did it; she did not wait until the next week
+or the next month, she did not even wait until the next day. You will
+say this was very clever and nice of 'Lisbeth to be so much in earnest;
+and so it might have been had she mixed the earnestness with the right
+kind of consideration for her mother's wishes. Indeed, in that case she
+would have been such a very fine girl that ten chances to one there
+would never have been any story about her at all; but she did not mix
+her earnestness with anything but her own judgment, and she made just
+as real a mistake as you would make should you mix your lemonade with
+salt, instead of sugar--it was the wrong kind of mixture altogether.
+
+When I say of 'Lisbeth that when she had a thing to do, she did it, that
+she did not wait until the next week, or next month, or next year, you
+will say: "How very delightful; how very much nicer and better 'Lisbeth
+must have been than most other people;" but when I tell you that she
+thought she knew what was best to be done so much better than anybody
+else, that she did what she thought best without asking her mother, you
+will know in a minute that 'Lisbeth was not as "nice" as a great many
+other people. How could she be? Why, she could not be at all.
+
+Well when 'Lisbeth thought the thought as she leaped off the stool, she
+did not wait until the next day to do what she thought about doing, nor
+till the next hour. She did not wait to consult her mother. As usual,
+she mixed her own judgment with her earnestness, instead of making use
+of her mother's judgment, and that was the cause of the confusion.
+Children's earnestness directed by the mother's judgment is a very
+different thing from children's earnestness directed by the children's
+judgment; there is as much difference between the two as there is
+between lemonade mixed with sugar and lemonade mixed with salt.
+
+'Lisbeth thought it would be pleasant to get everything pulled down, and
+turned inside out, and packed up ready to leave London; it would be that
+much done toward starting, it would be a great help, it would be
+delightful. Had she waited for mother's judgment she would have learned
+that mother would not get off from London for two months at any rate,
+that the things must not be pulled down until it was time to pack them
+up, that it would not be time to pack them up until just before they
+started. But 'Lisbeth mixed her earnestness with her own judgment.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIII.
+
+
+'Lisbeth said to herself: "Who knows but we shall go to-day or
+to-morrow, if mother gets the money; she said she would go when she got
+the money."
+
+'Lisbeth had found something to do at last.
+
+Gorham had gone with the mother to help carry her parcel, and Dickon was
+playing outside. Dickon's two feet had come in, but they had gone out
+again. They so often went out after they had come in that this was
+nothing uncommon. At first 'Lisbeth did not care about it; it made no
+difference to her that they had gone out, she began work by herself. She
+was a fast worker, an earnest worker, a worker who made things fly when
+she set about making them fly. I do not mean that she made them really
+fly up with wings, but she made them get from one place to another so
+fast that we may say she made them fly.
+
+She made the dishes fly out of the closets; the platters, the pots, and
+the patty pans; the stewpans, and spiders, and skillets; the boilers
+and broilers, and dippers; the glass jars, the stone jars, the basins;
+the boxes and bundles and baskets; a pretty job she was making of it,
+and, in the middle of it all, her face shone like a young sun, she was
+so delightfully busy.
+
+Suddenly 'Lisbeth remembered that she was working very hard, that Dickon
+was not working hard, that he was doing nothing but playing on the
+stairs; this was not pleasant to remember.
+
+"Do come here, Dickon," called 'Lisbeth, over the railing, and Dickon
+came.
+
+"Pull down everything very fast," commanded 'Lisbeth; "mother is going
+from London dreadful quick, the minute she gets the money; I shall pack
+things and get ready."
+
+Dickon did not like to pull them down; he did not approve of packing, he
+wanted to play.
+
+"You are a miserable boy, Dickon, worse than most any boy to leave me
+here by my lone self."
+
+Dickon looked around and began to think so too.
+
+"P'haps mother don't want to be packed."
+
+"Yes, she does; she does very much indeed; bring the things here,
+Dickon; pull'm all down here."
+
+Dickon did not like to pull them down; he was not sure even yet that
+mother wanted to be packed.
+
+"Pile'm down, Dickon!" commanded 'Lisbeth, and Dickon piled them down.
+
+"Hadn't you better fix some before you get more?"
+
+"I'll fix 'm when I get 'm all down here."
+
+"What? are you going to get all the dishes and--"
+
+"Go on I tell you, Dickon Lillibun! will you go on?"
+
+Dickon went on; so did 'Lisbeth.
+
+There was no place to walk, there was no place to sit down, there was
+scarcely place to stand; there was no place to put anything, there was
+scarcely anything more to put. Everything was pulled out, and heaped
+about, and 'Lisbeth stood in the middle of them.
+
+"Now, Dickon, this does look like doing something, don't it?"
+
+Dickon thought it did, Dickon capered over everything and started for
+the door.
+
+"Do not go!" commanded 'Lisbeth. "Do not go! do not dare to go!"
+
+But Dickon was gone.
+
+"Dickon!" called 'Lisbeth over the railings, "Dickon!" But Dickon was
+out of sight and hearing.
+
+"Oh that dreadful Dickon!" moaned 'Lisbeth, as she fluttered down the
+stairs to bring him back.
+
+Had Dickon never stopped work, had Dickon never run away, had 'Lisbeth
+never fluttered after him, things might have been different. I say they
+might have been, because, as I explained before, nobody could be quite
+sure as to what might or might not have been concerning 'Lisbeth; I say
+therefore that they might have been different. As it was Dickon did run
+away, and 'Lisbeth did flutter after him, and, as she went, she thought
+of a plan she had not been able to think of while sitting on the
+three-legged stool with her face to the wall--she thought of a plan to
+get money.
+
+'Lisbeth forgot that she was fluttering after Dickon; she forgot that
+Dickon had gone at all; she forgot everything but that she had thought
+of a plan to get money. She forgot about Dickon, but kept on running
+faster and faster until she was red in the face and out of breath.
+
+"Please, sir," said 'Lisbeth, gasping for breath, and rushing up to a
+little spare man in a little spare coat, who lived in the dirty old
+cellar of the sixth house from 'Lisbeth's, and bought paper and rags;
+"please, sir, come dreadful quick!"
+
+"How?" screamed the little man; "how?"
+
+He meant to say "What for? please tell me what is the matter?" but he
+said "How?"
+
+"With your feet! Fast, dreadful fast," gasped 'Lisbeth. No wonder she
+gasped for breath, she had come faster and faster from the top of the
+house to the cellar of the sixth house below, without even taking time
+to think; she did not stop afterward to think.
+
+"My feet? My feet?"
+
+"Please to come! oh, please to come!" pleaded 'Lisbeth, fairly dancing
+up and down.
+
+"My hat, my hat! oh, my hat!" pleaded the little man, turning and
+twisting all about; "my hat! my hat!"
+
+"Please to come! never mind no hat!" begged 'Lisbeth, half going, half
+staying, and still trying to catch her breath.
+
+"Oh, my head, my head!" almost sobbed the little man, holding his two
+hands over his head as he ran after 'Lisbeth, going faster and faster
+with every step.
+
+"My! my! oh my!" gasped the poor little man, still holding his head with
+his two hands, and taking hard, short breaths, as he went up one flight
+of stairs after another, and bobbed himself forward to try to catch a
+glimpse of 'Lisbeth and see that he was really following the right way
+and getting in the right door.
+
+"My! my! oh my!"
+
+He said it over again when he had bobbed his head in the right door.
+"Vat has happened? vat has happened? oh my! my! vat has happened?"
+
+"It has not happened at all; it would a' happened if you had waited for
+a hat."
+
+"Vat? vat?--my! my! my!--vat?"
+
+"Mother would a' come, and then she mightn't let me sold her pots and
+kettles and dishes 'stead of packing 'm up," said 'Lisbeth, puffing hard
+for breath. "Please to buy 'm quicker 'n anything."
+
+The little man did not choke; he only looked as if he was going to.
+'Lisbeth flew toward him and gave him a crack on the back, she thought
+that might do him good, but it did not help the matter at all; he
+looked more like choking than ever. 'Lisbeth seized a dipper; she did
+not mean to do anything unmannerly, she did not indeed, but she gave him
+a mouthful of water so suddenly and quickly that the little man choked,
+and perhaps it was best he should.
+
+I shall always think it was best he should, not that the little man was
+bad, or thinking about being bad, only that he was in danger of getting
+to be bad if he had never been so before; he was in danger of doing a
+wrong thing; in danger of buying a very great deal for a very little
+price. I did not say he was bad enough to do it, only it was best he
+choked, and kept choked long enough for 'Lisbeth's mother to come
+tripping up stairs with a new bundle and a little money, and a light
+heart, considering all things--for was she not going to begin right away
+to save up and to get back to the old house, the old home, in a month or
+two?
+
+As the little man stayed choked until after 'Lisbeth's mother had
+tripped to the door, and tossed away her bundle, and held up her hands,
+and implored to be told what was the matter, I shall never be able to
+say certainly that he was an honest little man, but I shall always
+believe that he was, and that it had been the thought of so much
+wickedness that almost choked him before he had the crack on the back or
+the mouthful from the dipper. You would have choked, or almost choked,
+of course you would. The astonishing part was that 'Lisbeth did not
+choke herself, but she never thought of such a thing, she only said,
+when her mother asked her what was the matter, "Nothing's the matter at
+all; but I'm most dreadful sorry you come just at this important minute;
+I was going to s'prise you with some cash straight off short, and the
+man must just fall to choking before I could get a living thing sold."
+
+Another surprising thing is that the mother did not choke, but she did
+not. Perhaps the reason was because she did not want to; the little man
+looked uncomfortable and he had been choking. At any rate she did not
+choke.
+
+If the little man had not looked so uncomfortable, and ready to get
+away, the mother might have fastened the door, and shouted fire, and
+armed with the tongs, and screamed for help, and startled the house,
+and frightened the street, and added confusion to confusion, but she
+only pulled the door open on a bigger crack to let him run out and down
+the stairs, holding his hands over his head and gasping, "My! my! my! my
+head!"
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIV.
+
+
+All that the mother did after the little man was gone I shall not
+pretend to say. I was not there at the time. Had I been there I would
+have been obliged to stand with my feet outside and my head within; how
+could I have had both head and feet within when there was no room to
+stand? But I was not there, and never have been sorry that I was not.
+You are not sorry that you were not there? Of course you are not.
+
+'Lisbeth would have been glad not to have been there, I suppose; the
+mother herself would have been more comfortable somewhere else, even if
+it had been in the street tugging home her bundle of clothes to be
+sewed. I was not there at the time, but I am certain that, by the next
+morning, the dishes stood in rows, the pans hung on the hooks; the jars
+and jams, and pots and kettles, and skillets, and spiders, and spoons,
+and dippers, and rollers, and beaters, and boilers, and broilers, and
+bundles, and boxes, and baskets, and things of all names and all sizes
+were sleeping as sweetly as such necessities ever sleep, in the
+cupboards and closets and dangling from the hooks, and the mother was
+putting in her needle and pulling it out, and nobody would have imagined
+that things had ever been otherwise.
+
+Yet things had been otherwise; we all know they had. Things might have
+been otherwise still had not 'Lisbeth's mother been a very decided
+mother; a mother who knew how things should be and how they should not
+be, and how little children should do and how they should not do, and
+how to get disordered things back into order as they should be, and
+children who were doing as they should not, for a little while at least,
+to do as they should.
+
+She said to 'Lisbeth, as she stood with her two feet on the two places
+where the little man had stood: "'Lisbeth, you are a very hindering
+child!"
+
+Had she said anything else, anything else at all, 'Lisbeth would not
+have felt it so much, she would not have been so entirely lifted out of
+herself, out of her own opinion, and made to see herself where her
+mother put her, back in the right place where every naughty child
+should be put as soon as possible.
+
+'Lisbeth gasped for breath. She looked fiercely up at her mother, and
+down at the floor; she looked within herself, and at the ugly picture of
+herself which her mother had just showed her. She saw that the picture
+was like her, that she was "a hindering child." It was a blow she was
+not prepared for. Had her mother said anything more immediately 'Lisbeth
+would not have seen so well that the mother's words were true; but she
+did not say any more immediately. She stood perfectly still with her
+feet in the two places where the little man's feet had been.
+
+'Lisbeth was very uncomfortable when she heard those words repeated;
+indeed she was very angry; she looked just as naughty as naughty could
+be; she looked like a girl who was cross because somebody was doing
+something very wrong to her. Then she did not look as naughty as naughty
+could be, she looked disappointed and sorry, and repentant, and humble,
+and this was because she saw that she was "a hindering child."
+
+At first she believed that she was a helping, comforting child, now she
+saw that she was not. She saw it as we sometimes see a flash of
+lightning. 'Lisbeth did not mean to be "a hindering child," but she was
+one.
+
+"Why am I a hindering child?" inquired 'Lisbeth when she could catch her
+breath.
+
+"Because you work by your own head instead of by mine," said the mother
+as she put one foot and then the other forward among the pots and
+kettles. But 'Lisbeth stood still in the middle of the floor considering
+what her mother meant, and if what she said was true, and if she was
+always to work the wrong way instead of the right way, like an engine
+which will run back instead of forward; and how long she might have
+stood considering, and how long she might have worn such a troubled
+face, and how long she might have felt such a lump in her throat, had
+not her mother come and stood before her, clearing a place for her feet
+as she came, I shall never pretend to say.
+
+But the mother did come and stand before her, and 'Lisbeth put her two
+hands in her mother's two hands, and looked up in her mother's face,
+into her mother's troubled eyes, and her mother knew that whatever else
+she might do, in days to come, she would never again try to move her
+before the time. The mother knew this as well as I do, but I know this
+and more beside.
+
+As I said before, I do not know exactly all that was done that
+afternoon, before the rooms and the mother and 'Lisbeth all grew quiet,
+and in place and comfortable, but I know something more important than
+this; I know that 'Lisbeth, after she had settled other matters began to
+settle her own mind as to the true meaning of her mother's words about
+her making use of the wrong head.
+
+She was obliged to think a great deal about it before she was able to
+settle it in her mind. It took a very great deal of thinking. How could
+she use her mother's head? How can you and I use our mothers' heads? Of
+course you know we could do it, how 'Lisbeth could have done it, but
+Lisbeth had to think hard about it before she knew. When she had made it
+quite sure in her own mind how it was to be done, she came to another
+trouble, she was not quite sure that she would like to do it.
+
+She thought a great while as to what she was to do about it; she
+thought a great while about it while seated on the three-legged stool
+with her face to the wall, and when she had finished thinking about it
+she got down from the stool and went and stood before her mother, and
+her mother looked up to see what she was standing there for, and then
+'Lisbeth said:
+
+"I'm going to try most dreadful hard to use your head; I've made up my
+mind to it."
+
+When 'Lisbeth made up her mind to a thing it was made up.
+
+'Lisbeth tried very hard from this time to use the mother's head; and
+though the mother used it too it did not get worn out half as fast as it
+had done before; it began to look newer--I mean younger--and to look as
+though use did it a great deal of good; and 'Lisbeth's head looked the
+better for it too--I mean her face looked the better for it--it looked
+rested; perhaps I should say it looked better contented than it did
+before, it looked more comfortable. In fact, by using the mother's head
+very frequently instead of her own, 'Lisbeth improved inside of a week,
+and in the two months while they yet remained in London she began to
+look like a helping child instead of a hindering one.
+
+When the time came for the packing up to be done 'Lisbeth really helped.
+She did; nobody need be astonished. She helped a great deal, and
+everybody seemed so happy that the mother laughed a dozen times just in
+packing up. This was such a remarkable thing to happen that every one
+was astonished; they could not help being astonished.
+
+Mother had not laughed for a great while. It seemed a very strange thing
+for her to do. Nobody could quite tell what she was laughing at either
+by thinking over it or by inquiring. Dickon inquired, but Dickon could
+not understand it any better after he had inquired.
+
+Gorham thought over it. He was older than Dickon, and perhaps should
+have been able to understand by thinking over it, but he did not. Gorham
+had been in London for some time, and had become accustomed to the two
+little rooms at the top of the house, where the walls were so black, and
+to the hubbub of voices above and below, and to the tatters on the
+little children, and to the dirt and tatters on the grown people; and
+had become accustomed to the little boys who were not very nice, or very
+comfortable to play with; Gorham had become accustomed to all this and
+did not dislike it all as much as he did when he first came to London.
+
+Indeed Gorham was growing a little bit like these little boys; just a
+little like them, not very much; I am glad to be able to say that it was
+not very much. But at any rate, Gorham could not see why his mother was
+laughing when she had not laughed for such a long time; laughing over
+her cracked crockery, broken-nosed teapots, and black old crocks. It
+never entered his mind that she was laughing because, though she seemed
+to be looking at the old crockery, she was looking over and past them
+with her mind's eye, to the clover tufts on the dear old fields, and to
+the paths winding about the mill, to the spire of the white wooden
+church; to the market-place where the mill-hands used to gather together
+and chat and talk. Yet she was looking at these and at many things
+beside, and not at all at the broken-nosed pots.
+
+'Lisbeth knew better than Gorham or Dickon why it was the mother
+laughed. I think she knew a great deal better. I think when she would
+put her face down close beside her mother's, and they would both smile
+so pleasantly, glancing toward each other and looking away, I think they
+were then seeing the same things, the very same things, though they were
+both a hundred miles away from the things themselves.
+
+This was very comfortable; so comfortable that Dickon and Gorham smiled
+too, though only looking at their two faces and at the iron pots, and
+broken noses, and the rubbish which the mother had gathered up. And
+indeed, though they could not tell why, they laughed themselves when the
+mother laughed, and who knows but perhaps after all they did, without
+knowing it, catch glimpses of the far-away things which 'Lisbeth and her
+mother were seeing.
+
+Everything was very comfortable all this packing-up time, in fact much
+of the two months before it.
+
+Now I do not intend you to suppose, when I say that everything was very
+comfortable, that everything was in order in those two rooms, that
+everything was fixed up; that the iron pots were full of cookies or of
+all kinds of cookeries; that the crockery was full of good things; that
+the black walls had been whitened; not a bit of it. Things had changed;
+things had changed very much. The faces had changed.
+
+The mother's face and 'Lisbeth's had altered more than Dickon's and
+Gorham's, but their being altered I think had changed Dickon's and
+Gorham's too. Do you know what had changed them? Why, 'Lisbeth had made
+up her mind to try to be contented and to use her mother's head. She was
+so much more pleasant looking that you would have been surprised at the
+change.
+
+You have seen her before this, with your mind's eye, I know; that is,
+you have imagined how she might have looked, and you have always seen
+her looking as though she was dissatisfied; as though she was wishing
+for something she had not; as though she was trying to think of
+something to do, or somewhere to go, as though she was about to make use
+of her own head contrary to that of her mother. But now she looked more
+cheerful and comfortable; indeed like a different girl entirely. You
+see she made up her mind to be a different girl entirely, and to try to
+work by her mother's head, and when 'Lisbeth made up her mind about
+anything we know that it was made up.
+
+'Lisbeth had improved very much. Yet she was 'Lisbeth; 'Lisbeth working
+a great deal by her mother's head instead of by her own.
+
+Beside this 'Lisbeth had a pleasant prospect before her; a very pleasant
+prospect indeed. She did not very often lose sight of this prospect; I
+mean the prospect of going a hundred miles from London. She looked so
+much more pleasant than formerly that you would not think, at sight of
+her, "there is a girl who is not satisfied in the place where she is
+growing, or with the things she finds around her; she looks
+uncomfortable."
+
+I think that 'Lisbeth was better contented the last weeks she lived in
+London than during any week of her life, except the week before she came
+to London. Her contentment had changed everything very much; as I said,
+it had changed the faces; the faces were changed because everybody felt
+happier. Things were very different in those two rooms because 'Lisbeth
+was different.
+
+For two whole months they were getting ready to go away; they were
+working and saving and wondering and smiling and laughing and hoping
+before they left the dreadful old rooms, but then they were such
+different months from all the others spent there that they were short
+months; that is, they seemed short.
+
+The boys were happier when their mother and 'Lisbeth were bright and
+happy; their mother was happy when her children were good and wore
+bright faces. 'Lisbeth wore a bright face when she tried to be content
+with things as she found them, and did not run about the streets of
+London trying to sell gingerbread cats and dogs and doll-babies, trying
+to earn pence with sweeping streets or pulling wires, or making wigs. So
+as everybody was happier than they had been the months seemed short.
+
+Who cared that the walls were black and the rooms little and the street
+too little to be called a street? Nobody.
+
+All the difference came by 'Lisbeth's having made up her mind to be
+contented to help mother in mother's way instead of her own way; by
+'Lisbeth's having made up her mind to mix her earnestness with her
+mother's judgment.
+
+They left the little dark rooms, in the dirty old house, and all the
+shows, and people, and carriages and houses of London, and went back
+where they first grew, back to the very house under the walnut tree
+where the bits of the hogshead still blew about--the hogshead which had
+once opened its mouth.
+
+The mother went again to work at the mill, and the children all went to
+Miss Pritchet's school, and 'Lisbeth picked beans, and helped take care
+of Trotty, and of the house, and helped mother so much, that mother
+began to look bright and happy and smiling like somebody else. In fact,
+'Lisbeth looked bright and happy, and smiling, herself, like somebody
+else, and when she would sit on the mile-stone she would smile more than
+ever in thinking what a little goose she had been ever to want to go so
+many miles away; and, indeed, so happy and contented did she become
+with the work she found to do in the place in which she grew, that you
+would never have known her to be 'Lisbeth.
+
+
+
+
+      *      *      *      *      *
+
+
+
+Transcriber's note:
+
+Obvious punctuation errors have been corrected.
+
+Blank pages have been removed.
+
+On page 42 "unreasonble" has been changed to "unreasonable"
+   (... thought him unreasonable enough, ...)
+
+On page 50 "disparingly" has been changed to "dispairingly" (... said
+   'Lisbeth a little despairingly.)
+
+On page 84 "a doing" has been changed to "a-doing". (You must be up
+   and a-doing, ..)
+
+On page 27 the word "flim" has been retained.
+
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