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"Perhaps. Still we may as well amuse her a bit. She seems to be having a rotten time with that old red baroness and all that etiquette," said the Ter-
ror in a kindly tone.

"She needn't stand it, if she doesn't like it. I shouldn't," said Erebus coldly; then her face brightened, and she added: "I tell you what though: it would be rather fun to teach her to jump on that old red baroness."

"Yes," said the Terror doubtfully. "But I ex-
pect she'd take a lot of teaching. I don't think she's the kind of kid to do much jumping on peo-
ple."

"Oh, you never know. We can always try," said Erebus cheerfully.

"Yes," said the Terror.

Warmed by this noble resolve, they moved quietly out of the wood. It was not so difficult a matter as it may sound to move, even encumbered by bi-
cycles, about the home wood, for it was not so care-
fully preserved as the woods farther away from the Grange; indeed, the keepers paid but little at-
tention to it. The Twins moved out of it safely and returned home with easy minds: it did not

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