MERRIMEG AND THE RAG-BONE MAN
MERRIMEG AND THE RAG-BONE MAN
“RAGS! bones! old iron!”
Merrimeg put her head out of the front window and looked down the street.
A queer man with a dirty face was coming along, and he was bending down under a heavy sack which he was carrying on his back.
“Rags! bones! old iron!” he cried, and all the children who were playing in the street ran indoors in a fright.
It was the Rag-Bone Man. Everybody said that if you didn’t look sharp he’d snatch you up and stuff you in his sack and carry you off and never, never bring you back any more; so all the children in that village were terribly afraid of him, and whenever they saw him coming they simply took to their heels and fled.