She 's a witch , you know . I would n't go near her again for a bushel of magic seed . It was an awful experience . I have n't much left , but I guess I 've enough to do me till I 'm as tall as I want to be . You must take a pinch of the seed every three hours , walking backward , and you must never tell a soul you 're taking it , or it wo n't work . I would n't spare any of it to any one but you . '' I felt deeply grateful to Billy , and sorry that I had not liked him better . Somehow , nobody did like Billy Robinson over and above . But I vowed I WOULD like him in future . I paid him the ten cents cheerfully and took the magic seed as directed , measuring myself carefully every day by a mark on the hall door . I could not see any advance in growth yet , but then I had been taking it only three days . One day the Story Girl had an inspiration . `` Let us go and ask the Awkward Man and Mr. Campbell for a contribution to the library fund , '' she said . `` I am sure no one else has asked them , because nobody in Carlisle is related to them . Let us all go , and if they give us anything we 'll divide it equally among us . '' It was a daring proposition , for both Mr. Campbell and the Awkward Man were regarded as eccentric personages ; and Mr. Campbell was supposed to detest children . But where the Story Girl led we would follow to the death . The next day being Saturday , we started out in the afternoon . We took a short cut to Golden Milestone , over a long , green , dewy land full of placid meadows , where sunshine had fallen asleep . At first all was not harmonious .
Felicity was in an ill humour ; she had wanted to wear her second best dress , but Aunt Janet had decreed XXXXX her school clothes were good enough to go `` traipsing about in the dust . ''
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