Her family never suspekted anything and they hung round talking to folks and shaking hands while Miss Jemima Parr and my mothers uncle Thomas were eloping outside . And what do you suppose they eloped in . Why in Miss Jemima Parrs fathers slay . And when he went out they were gone and his slay was gone also his horse . Of course my mothers uncle Thomas didnt steal the horse . He just borroed it and sent it home the next day . But before Miss Jemima Parrs father could get another rig to follow them they were so far away he couldent catch them before they got married . And they lived happy together forever afterwards . Mothers uncle Thomas lived to be a very old man . He died very suddent . He felt quite well when he went to sleep and when he woke up he was dead . PETER CRAIG . MY MOST EXCITING ADVENTURE The editor says we must all write up our most exciting adventure for Our Magazine . My most exciting adventure happened a year ago last November . I was nearly frightened to death . Dan says he would n't of been scared and Felicity says she would of known what it was but it 's easy to talk . It happened the night I went down to see Kitty Marr . I thought when I went that Aunt Olivia was visiting there and I could come home with her . But she was n't there and I had to come home alone . Kitty came a piece of the way but she would n't come any further than Uncle James Frewen 's gate .
She said it was because it was so windy she was afraid she would get the tooth-ache and not because she was frightened of the ghost XXXXX the dog that haunted the bridge in Uncle James ' hollow .
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