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Well, one day, as I was saying, the children, who had not seen old Betty for several weeks, were on their way to the village -- two miles off -- when near the corner of a lane, they heard a great noise. Loud voices and jeering laughter, and a kind of strange shrill shrieking, which made them stare at each other in wonder and almost fear. Nurse was not with them, they were to meet her further down the road, as she had gone on first with a message to a woman who was ill.
"What can it be? " said Maisie.