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Updated: June 12, 2025
All the children who had given up their little purse on May day were assembled on the play-green. They were delighted to see the guinea-hen once more. Philip took his pipe and tabor, and they marched in innocent triumph towards the whitewashed cottage. "Let me come with you let me come with you," said the butcher's boy to Philip. "Stop one minute! my father has something to say to you."
After they had retired to rest, a Fellata woman came to their dwelling, bringing with her a number of eggs of the guinea-hen, and a large bowl of milk fresh from the cow, as a return for a few needles they had given her in the afternoon.
On this, he immediately turned back to try whether he had shut the gate fast, lest the guinea-hen might stray out, and fall again into the hands of the enemy. Miss Barbara, in the course of this day, felt considerable mortification, but no contrition. She was vexed that her meanness was discovered, but she felt no desire to cure herself of any of her faults.
Susan was touched, but not astonished, by the kindness of her young friends, and she received the purse with as much simplicity as she would have given it. "Well," said Rose, "shall I go back for the guinea-hen?" "The guinea-hen!" said Susan, starting from a reverie into which she had fallen, as she contemplated the purse.
She thanked him, and with that nimble alacrity which marks the desire to please, she ran to her neat chicken-yard; but, alas!, her guinea-hen was not there it had strayed into the attorney's garden. She saw it through the paling, and timidly opening the little gate, she asked Miss Barbara, who was walking slowly by, to let her come in and take her guinea-hen.
"How does your mother do, in the first place?" said Rose. "Better, thank you." "That's well, and I have a little bit of good news for you besides here," said she, pulling out a glove, in which there was money, "we'll get the guinea-hen back again we have all agreed about it. This is the money that has been given to us in the village this May morning. At every door they gave silver.
Barbara also saw the guinea-hen, and turned her head another way, that she might avoid the contemptuous, reproachful looks of those whom she only affected to despise. Even her new bonnet, in which she had expected to be so much admired, was now only serviceable to hide her face and conceal her mortification. "I am glad she saw the guinea-hen," cried Rose, who now held it in her hands.
Pill told his wife that he could preach no more, she cried, and gasped, and scolded till she was in danger of losing her breath entirely. "A guinea-hen sort of a woman" Councill called her. "She can talk more an' say less 'n any woman I ever see," was Bacon's verdict, after she had been at dinner at his house. She was a perpetual irritant. Mr.
"Perhaps she will be more careful now that she has received so strong a lesson," said Miss Somers. "Shall we try her?" continued she. "Philip will, I daresay, take the guinea-hen back to Susan, if we desire it." "If you please, ma'am," said Barbara, sullenly; "I have nothing more to do with it."
"Yes," said Philip, "she'll not forget May day in a hurry." "Nor I neither, I hope," said Susan, looking round upon her companions with a most affectionate smile: "I hope, whilst I live, I shall never forget your goodness to me last May day. Now I've my pretty guinea-hen safe once more, I should think of returning your money." "No! no! no!" was the general cry.
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