Mona gave her a long lecture upon the dangers to which she had exposed herself in making friends with tramps, and when they reached home she was delivered over to her governess with a sharp injunction to punish her for running away, and keep her in the school-room for the rest of the evening.
"So that's what I get for trying to be double good!" said poor Jill when she was in bed that night. "I never will try it again!"
"Perhaps," said Bumps with wisdom beyond her years, "it wasn't quite the right way to be it!"
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A PAPER CHASE
Sam Stone did not hold out very long. Jill pursued him everywhere, and was never tired of dilating on his selfishness and greediness, in refusing to give up a tenth of his weekly wage.
She was beside herself with delight one day, when he came to her with a two-shilling piece.
"That be my portion for that there scarlet bag, missy," he said. "I'll stick to it for a bit an' give it reg'lar every week, but if-so-be that I be wantin' of it, well I must have it. That's all I can say, an' I hope fayther won't miss his comforts through it!"