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The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas by Janet Aldridge
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"I don't want to fall," wailed the little girl "I want to thtay here.
Don't you dare touch me, Harriet Burrell."

"Then wait until the others get here. They are almost here now."

"There it is," cried a voice. Harriet thought the voice belonged to Miss
Elting. It proved to belong to Cora Kidder. "My gracious, girls what is
it?"

"It ith I," answered a plaintive voice from above their heads.

"Oh, oh, oh!" cried the girls as they gazed up at the limb of the tree
from where Tommy was suspended.

"Young woman what are you doing up there?" demanded Mrs. Livingston. "Are
you Miss Thompson?"

"I wath. I don't know who I am now, Mithith Livingthton. Pleathe help me
down."

"If you will stand below to catch her I think I shall be able to release
her," called Harriet from her perch in the tree.

Harriet had not been seen before in the darkness, screened by the foliage
as she was, Mrs. Livingston called to know who she was. Harriet gave her
name. Then the Chief Guardian directed that Harriet should release the
prisoner from her difficulty while several of the guardians stood in a
circle under the tree with arms outstretched ready to stop the fall of the
little figure hanging over their heads.

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