All of a suddent she thought she would hide it in the bread . She put her hand up and pulled it hard and quick and broke the fastening and needed it right into the loaf . Then she put the loaf in the pan and set it in the oven . The tramp hadent seen her do it and then he asked for something to eat . Granma got him up a meal and when hed et it he began prowling about the kitchen looking into everything and opening the cubbord doors . Then he went into granma 's mas room and turned the buro drawers and trunk inside out and threw the things in them all about . All he found was a purse with a dollar in it and he swore about it and took it and went away . When granma was sure he was really gone she broke down and cried . She forgot all about the bread and it burned as black as coal . When she smelled it burning granma run and pulled it out . She was awful scared the locket was spoiled but she sawed open the loaf and it was there safe and sound . When her Aunt Hannah came back she said granma deserved the locket because she had saved it so clever and she gave it to her and grandma always wore it and was very proud of it . And granma used to say that was the only loaf of bread she ever spoiled in her life . PETER CRAIG . -LRB- FELICITY : `` Those stories are all very well but they are only true stories . It 's easy enough to write true stories . I thought Peter was appointed fiction editor , but he has never written any fiction since the paper started . That 's not MY idea of a fiction editor . He ought to make up stories out of his own head . '' PETER , SPUNKILY : `` I can do it , too , and I will next time .
And it ai n't easier to XXXXX true stories .
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