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DAISY ALONE. 
CHAPTER IV. 
THE LEOPARDS. 
The next morning, soon after breakfast, 
Kate returned to the village, whither Annie 
accompanied her, intending to spend the 
day and return when the family came from 
the weekly lecture at the church, which 
they always attended on Wednesday even¬ 
ing. Dick and Sidney also disappeared, 
without telling any one, except Aunt Louisa, 
where they were going: so that Daisy had 
the house to herself. This, however, did not 
trouble her at all, for she was very easily 
amused, and was so quiet and obedient 
that she was a welcome companion to every¬ 
body,—whether she sat on a stool by her 
grandfather’s feet, looking at pictures or 
reading, or went about the house with Aunt 
Louisa to attend to the housekeeping, or 
climbed up in one of the high kitchen- 
