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"Wasn't it a dainty dish to set before a king?" cried Anna,

her eyes flashing with joy as she uttered the cryptic words,

looking at Brangwen for confir up,up"

And the baby cried loudly, and Anna shouted lustily, dancing

in wild bliss: "Sing a song of sixpence

Pocketful of posies,

Ascha! Ascha!----"

Then she stopped suddenly in silence and looked at Brangwen

again, her eyes flashing, as she shouted loudly and

delightedly: "I've got it wrong, I've got it wrong"

"Oh, wen hushed the child and Anna flipped and danced on She

loved her wild bursts of rowdiness with her father Tilly hated

it, Mrs Brangwen did not mind

Anna did not care much for other children She domineered

the and

incapable, to her they were little people, they were not her

equals So she wasthe far on and never ceasing

She loved driving with Brangwen in the trap Then, sitting

high up and bowling along, her passion for eminence and

doe in her

arrogance She thought her father ih And they spanked along, beside the high,

flourishing hedge-tops, surveying the activity of the