They did not `` speak '' for a day over this . Mary treated Una 's hairless , one-eyed doll with consideration ; but when Una showed her other prized treasure -- a picture of an angel carrying a baby , presumably to heaven , Mary declared that it looked too much like a ghost for her . Una crept away to her room and cried over this , but Mary hunted her out , hugged her repentantly and implored forgiveness . No one could keep up a quarrel long with Mary -- not even Nan , who was rather prone to hold grudges and never quite forgave the insult to her mother . Mary was jolly . She could and did tell the most thrilling ghost stories . Rainbow Valley seances were undeniably more exciting after Mary came . She learned to play on the jew 's - harp and soon eclipsed Jerry . `` Never struck anything yet I could n't do if I put my mind to it , '' she declared . Mary seldom lost a chance of tooting her own horn . She taught them how to make `` blow-bags '' out of the thick leaves of the `` live-forever '' that flourished in the old Bailey garden , she initiated them into the toothsome qualities of the `` sours '' that grew in the niches of the graveyard dyke , and she could make the most wonderful shadow pictures on the walls with her long , flexible fingers . And when they all went picking gum in Rainbow Valley Mary always got `` the biggest chew '' and bragged about it . There were times when they hated her and times when they loved her . But at all times they found her interesting . So they submitted quite meekly to her bossing , and by the end of a fortnight had come to feel that she must always have been with them . `` It 's the queerest thing that Mrs. Wiley hai n't been after me , '' said Mary . `` I ca n't understand it . '' `` Maybe she is n't going to bother about you at all , '' said Una . `` Then you can just go on staying here . '' `` This house ai n't hardly big enough for me and old Martha , '' said Mary darkly .
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