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 I'm going to be an actress when I get big,' declared Lilith. 'I'm going to have a splendid career on the stage, and I shall earn heaps of money. And I shall have magnificent clothes, and every one will look at me and say, "Isn't she in stunning form to-night!

"And Le Page and Delilah were so overcome by the vision thus presented of their sister that they could but stare, awed and silent.

"And Delilah wondered how it must seem to be so very clever.

"But Le Page, who was eleven years old himself, soon rallied.

Well, then,' said he, 'when I get big I'm going to be a pirate. I'll lay over all the pirates that ever were, a-firing and a-pillaging—and I'll wear magnificent clothes, and everyone will look at me and say, "Isn't he in stunning form to-night!