I made a little spring and the straw slipped from under my feet and there I was going head first down from the loft . It seemed to me I was an awful long time falling , but the Story Girl says I could n't have been more than three seconds . But I know that I thought five thoughts and there seemed to be quite a long time between them . The first thing I thought was , what has happened , because I really did n't know at first , it was so sudden . Then after a spell I thought the answer , I am falling off the loft . And then I thought , what will happen to me when I strike the floor , and after another little spell I thought , I 'll be killed . And then I thought , well , I do n't care . I really was n't a bit frightened . I just was quite willing to be killed . If there had n't been a big pile of chaff on the barn floor these words would never have been written . But there was and I fell on it and was n't a bit hurt , only my hair and mouth and eyes and ears got all full of chaff . The strange part is that I was n't a bit frightened when I thought I was going to be killed , but after all the danger was over I was awfully frightened and trembled so the Story Girl had to help me into the house . FELICITY KING . THE BATTLE OF THE PARTRIDGE EGGS Once upon a time there lived about half a mile from a forrest a farmer and his wife and his sons and daughters and a granddaughter . The farmer and his wife loved this little girl very much but she caused them great trouble by running away into the woods and they often spent haf days looking for her . One day she wondered further into the forrest than usual and she begun to be hungry . Then night closed in . She asked a fox where she could get something to eat . The fox told her he knew where there was a partridges nest and a bluejays nest full of eggs . So he led her to the nests and she took five eggs out of each .
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