what was that ? ' Tony beseeches her , ` It was nothing -- do n't , Maimie , do n't ! ' and pulls the sheet over his head . ` It is coming nearer ! ' she cries . ` Oh , look at it , Tony ! It is feeling your bed with its horns -- it is boring for you , O Tony , oh ! ' and she desists not until he rushes downstairs in his combinations , screeching . When they came up to whip Maimie they usually found her sleeping tranquilly -- not shamming , you know , but really sleeping , and looking like the sweetest little angel , which seems to me to make it almost worse . But of course it was daytime when they were in the Gardens , and then Tony did most of the talking . You could gather from his talk that he was a very brave boy , and no one was so proud of it as Maimie . She would have loved to have a ticket on her saying that she was his sister . And at no time did she admire him more than when he told her , as he often did with splendid firmness , that one day he meant to remain behind in the Gardens after the gates were closed . ' O Tony , ' she would say with awful respect , ` but the fairies will be so angry ! ' ' I dare say , ' replied Tony carelessly . ` Perhaps , ' she said , thrilling , ` Peter Pan will give you a sail in his boat ! ' ' I shall make him , ' replied Tony ; no wonder she was proud of him . -LSB- Illustration : They all tickled him on the shoulder -LRB- missing from book -RRB- -RSB- But they should not have talked so loudly , for one day they were overheard by a fairy who had been gathering skeleton leaves , from which the little people weave their summer curtains , and after that Tony was a marked boy . They loosened the rails before he sat on them , so that down he came on the back of his head ; they tripped him up by catching his bootlace , and bribed the ducks to sink his boat . Nearly all the nasty accidents you meet with in the Gardens occur because the fairies have taken an ill-will to you , and so it behoves you to be careful what you say about them .
Maimie was one of the kind who like to fix a day for doing things , but Tony was not that kind , and when she asked him which day he was to remain behind in the Gardens after Lock-out he merely replied , ` Just some day ' ; he was quite vague about which XXXXX except when she asked , ` Will it be to-day ? '
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