There were always two nurses with her, or else one mother and one nurse, and for a long time she was a pattern-child who always coughed off the table and said, “ how do you do ?” to the other children, and the only game she played at was flining a ball gracefully and letting the nurse it back to her. Then one day she tired of it all and went maddog, and first , to show that she really was mad-dog, she unloosened both her bootlaces and put out her tongue east, west, north, and south, She then flung her sash into a puddle and danced on it till dirty water was squirted over her frock, after which she climbed the fance and had a series of incredible adventures, one of the least of which was that she kicked off both her boots. At last she came to the gate that is now called after her, out of which she ran into the streets, and still she ran on and would never again have been heard of had not her mother jumped into a dus and thus overtaken her.