WRITTEN BY LOIS NEWBEGIN VALENTIN
Mag and Alice were anxiously looking at the old house down the street. It had been vacant for a long time. But now new neighbors were moving in. Rumor had it that there was a little girl in the family. They sat on the sidewalk and wondered what the new family would be like. The movers had been there earlier but they hadn’t seen any little girl.
Suddenly the curtain moved in the window of the house. A shadow appeared. All of a sudden the front door opened and the little girl came outside.
Mag and Alice looked at each other then at the little girl who was walking towards them.
She said, “ Hi, I’m Lizzie Tish and I just moved in. My mother says I can play with you for a while. I think she wants me out of her hair”.
Mag and Alice smiled as they introduced themselves.
Lizzie had curly red hair, green eyes and freckles all over her face. She was a very curious little girl, often very clumsy and sometimes got into trouble. She had a beautiful white dress on that she didn’t like at all.
The girls took her on a tour of the neighborhood; through Mrs. Magillacuddy’s vegetable garden where they liked to nibble on tomatoes and string beans, in and out of the clubhouse, through the field where they liked to hide in the tall grass, and finally to the woods in the back of Alice Tonk’s house. There her father was tending to the family of pigs he kept in the pig pen.
Naturally, being as curious as she was, Lizzie climbed up on the fence for a better look. Just as she leaned over, in she fell. Right into the mud and pig food. Mr. Tonk ran and grabbed her and pulled her out, just as mother pig came charging towards her.
Lizzie was upset, scared, and grateful that the mother pig hadn’t caught her. Suddenly she burst into laughter. She had just ruined the beautiful white dress- the one she didn’t like at all.
They walked her home to explain to her mother. She, too, felt relieved that Lizzie was alright.
Lizzie took a bath and changed her clothes, then went out to play again. The three of them walked down the street together. Mrs. Tish looked out the window, happy that Lizzie had friends to occupy her time.
Mrs. Splash and Mrs. Tonk looked out their windows with hesitation and wonder. Now there were three little girls. Mag, Alice, and Lizzie, who would soon be as inseparable as the Three Muskateers. Now the torrid duo was a terrible trio.
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