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Tip reflected.
"It's a hard thing, to be a marble statue," he thought, rebelliously, "and I'm not going to stand it. For years I've been a bother to her, she says; so she's going to get rid of me. Well, there's an easier way than to become a statue. No boy could have any fun forever standing in the middle of a flower garden! I'll run away, that's what I'll do-and I may as well go before she makes me drink that nasty stuff in the kettle. " He waited until the snores of the old witch announced she was fast asleep, and then he arose softly and went to the cupboard to find something to eat.