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THE SURPRISE.


"Whose hands are over your eyes? Guess quick."

"Old Mother Hubbard's?"

"Wrong: guess again."

"The good fairy's, Teenty Tawnty?"

"There are no fairies in this part of the country, and you know it.
Guess again."

"Well, I guess it is the old woman that lived in a shoe."

"She is not in these parts. I will give you one more chance. Who is it?"

"I think it must be little Miss Muffit,--the one who was frightened by a
spider."

"Nonsense! One would think you had read nothing but 'Mother Goose's
Melodies.'"

"Can it be Tom, Tom, the piper's son?"