dared not move.

"Oh, good, good," said Jenny, coming out from her concealment; "make
Tasso keep him there ever so long; and," she continued, patting the
dog, "if you won't hurt him much, you may shake him just a little."

"No, no," said Henry, writhing with fear, "call him off, do call him
off. Oh, mercy!" he added, as Tasso, who did not particularly care to
have the case reasoned, showed two rows of very white teeth.

Mary could not help laughing at the figure which Henry cut; but
thinking him sufficiently punished, she called off the dog, who obeyed
rather unwillingly, and ever after manifested his dislike to Henry by
growling angrily whenever he appeared.

One morning about two weeks afterwards, Mary was in the meadow
gathering cowslips for dinner, when she heard some one calling her
name; and looking up, she saw Jenny hurrying towards her, her
sun-bonnet hanging down her back as usual, and her cheeks flushed with
violent exercise. As soon as she came up, she began with, "Oh my,
ain't I hot and tired, and I can't stay a minute either, for I run
away. But I had such good news to tell you, that I would come. You are
going to have a great deal better home than this. You know where Rice
Corner is, the district over east?"

Mary replied that she did, and Jenny continued: "We all went over
there yesterday to see Mrs. Mason. She's a real nice lady, who used to
live in Boston, and be intimate with ma, until three or four years
ago, when Mr. Mason died. We didn't go there any more then, and I
asked Rose what the reason was, and she said Mrs. Mason was poor now,