"
The girls laughed, and so the matter rested.
"What shall we do now?" asked Rock. "Will you look at pictures, or play
games, or what?"
Dimple looked at Florence, and Florence looked at Dimple.
"I think pictures are nice in winter, when you can't be out of doors,"
said Florence, who never could get enough of out of doors.
So they concluded to play out of doors.
"What nice long grass this is," said Dimple. "We could almost hide
ourselves. We might play we were rabbits, and hop about and make nests."
"Let's hide ourselves," cried Florence. "I speak for first count.
"'Onery Twoery,
Dickery Day,
Illava, Lullava,
Lackava Lay,
One condemn the American line.
Umny Bumny,
Twenty-nine.
Fillason, Folloson,
Nicholas John.
Queevy, Quavy,
English Navy,
Signum, Sangnum,
Buck!'
"You're out," she sang out to Rock and then went again rapidly over the
count, making herself "It."
Then Dimple and Rock stole softly off to hide themselves, while
Florence covered her eyes by a tree.
"Whoop!" called Dimple, presently.
"Whoop!" called Rock, a moment later.
And Florence went in search of them, but before she found them, she
discovered something else and called out:
"Rock! Dimple! Come here, quick. I have found something so funny and
cunning.
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