"Oh, dear! oh, dear!"
But turning her head round, she discovered the delinquent.
"Forgive me, Ellen dear, but really you exposed so very pretty a sight while stooping that upon my word I could not help it."
Now girls are curious as well as boys, perhaps more so; and if the truth must be told, Miss had for some time past longed for an opportunity to become better acquainted with things in general, and, therefore, thought here was a chance not to be thrown away. So, after some little show of resistance on her part, for decency's sake, it was agreed between them that he should have a good look at hers, if he would afterwards show her his. Miss Ellen had never seen a male "diddle," as she and her young playfellows called it, not even that of a boy, and she was all excitement and expectation
