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was solved. They were feet, and Topsy was attached to them.

"Come out, we have found you!" they cried.

"I can't," came in smothered tones.

Janie then took one foot, Lucile another, while Patty pulled the dust-pan, and out popped Topsy, pale with fright.

"I tell you what," said Dinah, "dat's the nearest you`ll ever come to bein' white. Yo' own mother wudden't a-knowed you!"

When Topsy was herself again, the game went merrily on, until Mirandy Alviry Wiggins, wishing to do something unusual, decided to climb a tree.

It would be great fun to watch them from her perch, high up, and at last, when they gave up, she