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foe'en 'snortentecKto Anne. Then, as she could 



^dlwjifr "trees, pire&rre'd boys' games to dolls, and 



11 Lsk6et c a great 1 mari^ questions about how things 



are made, her father called her Tommy- Anne in 



fun, and the name suited her so well that people 



very soon forgot that she had any other. 



Playing alone in the woods and garden, and 

 doing her lessons seated on the big dictionary 

 close by her father, as he worked in his study, 

 Tommy- Anne had time to think of a great many 

 whys and whats and becauses that very few people 

 understood, and that no one seemed to have 

 time to answer. Her Aunt Prue, who consid- 

 ered Tommy-Anne as odd as her name, and was 

 the only one of the family at home that day, told 

 the child to "go out and try to be like other 

 people," simply because she had asked a few 

 particularly difficult whys. 



Tommy- Anne stood in the doorway, tying a 

 knot in the elastic of her hat, and wondering 

 why her hat would not stick on without being 

 fastened, as the butcher-boy's did. 



Two odours perplexed her inquisitive nose, 



-cake in process of baking and a breath of the 



first apple blossoms. Without hesitating, she 



started in the direction of the orchard ; but her 



little rabbit-hound, Waddles, was more interested 



