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“ is our Maria?” enquired Martin.

“She is playing abroad, yonder upon the green,” replied his wife, “with little Andrew our neighbours’ son.son.” [sic]

“I hope they will not stray away, and lose themselves during our absence from home. Go, housewife, and warn them to heed how they roam not far.”

The mother immediately hastened towards the children, and bade them to beware how they wandered from the spot. “Fear not,” returned the boy, “that we shall venture near the Goblins’ Wood, we are too much afraid of approaching it.”

Thus assured of their caution in this respect,