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While the aunts were deciding upon Ladybird's future, old Matthew was wandering down the garden path toward the orchard.
"She bates the Dutch, that child," he said to himself. "Now I'll wager me dinner that she's hidin' under a cabbage-leaf, or in some burrd's nest."