Those planks can
talk, they say the same thing every day."
You have to go back,
You have to go back,
You have to go back.
You listen to-morrow morning."
"They could never wake me up," Pee-Wee said, which was probably
true. "What do you mean about their saying you have to go back?"
"When Aunt Jamsiah took me, I was a probator. Do you know what
that means?"
"It's what they do with people's wills," Pee-Wee said.
"It means if I don't behave I have to go back to the orphan home,"
the girl said. "And every day I was afraid I'd have to go back--for a
long, long time, I was. And when I was lying in bed mornings I'd hear
the planks saying that--
You have to go back,
You have to go back.
just like that, and I'd get good and scared."
"You won't have to go back," said Pee-Wee.
"You leave it to me, I'll fix it. Those planks--I've known lots of
planks--and they can't tell the truth. Don't you care. I wouldn't believe
what an old plank said. Trees are all right, but planks--"
"I don't notice it so much now," Pepsy said; "that was a year ago
and Aunt Jamsiah says I'm all right and mind good except I'm a tomboy.
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