d the stem of which, as it stealthily crawled up, it would look askance at little Peggy, like some impish demon peering and mocking at her, but prevented by fate or fear from approaching within the charmed circle of defence which her innocence and virgin purity formed around her ; all the same, the…
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d the stem of which, as it stealthily crawled up, it would look askance at little Peggy, like some impish demon peering and mocking at her, but prevented by fate or fear from approaching within the charmed circle of defence which her innocence and virgin purity formed around her ; all the same, their presence made her feel not a little " skeery " and horror-haunted. " Old-men kangaroos" as they heard her step \vould leap from the ground and bound a few paces and turn back and look at her, prop- ping themselves up with their tails, their paws hanging at their sides like hands ; and as she came nearer would again bound axvay, and.
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