OR,
"SHE MADE ME DO IT."
"SEE that woman coming down the road!" said Mary Willis to her companions. "Isn't she a funny-looking body?"
"She has just come off the cars, I suppose," said another girl. "Look at her bonnet. I should think it had been made before the flood."
"Poor thing, she looks very tired," said Helen Arnold: "and see how lame the little boy is. She seems to be a stranger in town."
"Go and make acquaintance with her, Helen," said Cora Hart, with a sneer. "She is so fashionably dressed and so elegant looking, she would be a nice companion for you."
"See, she is coming this way!" exclaimed Jane Marvin. "I do believe she means to speak to us. Let us have some fun with her, girls!"
"I will have nothing to do with such fun as yours!" said Helen Arnold. "I think it is downright mean and wicked to make sport of poor and old people. Mary Willis, you had better come home with me and be out of mischief."