WRITTEN BY LOIS NEWBEGIN VALENTIN
In a town called Methuen in the eastern seaboard state of Massachusetts lived two young girls named Mag Splash and Alice Tonk.
Mag had brown hair and blue eyes. Her hair was cut short like that of a Dutch boy. Alice had curly dark brown hair with brown eyes. Their complexions were fair as snow.
They were always getting into trouble. Mag liked to confuse and aggravate people. Such as the time she was riding in Grampie and Grammie Orr’s car. All of a sudden she started to cry and scream, “ STOP!”.
Grampie Orr pulled to the side of the road frantically trying to find out what was wrong.
Mag explained that they had just passed a sign saying, “ STOP - VISIT PEPPERILL MILLS” , They resumed their travels shortly thereafter with Mag sulking in the back seat of the car.
Alice liked to do mischievous acts to everyone around her. Like the time she saw her father’s stovepipe hat hanging in the corner of the hall. The hat looked like Abe Lincoln’s.
Alice took a pair of scissors and cut around the brim of the hat leaving only enough to keep the top from falling off. Then she pushed it down inside the ribbon to keep it in place and put it back on the hook.
Later that day when her father went visiting, being the gentleman that he was, he tipped his hat to the woman with whom he was speaking. The top of the hat came off. He quickly apologized and went home. After a very long scolding, Alice was ordered to the corner.
So as you can see, trouble was no stranger to the girls.
Although the Splashes and the Tonks were neighbors, they had never met. But soon that would change. What a change that would be!
One very hot summer’s day, Mrs. Splash and Mag took a walk to downtown Lawrence. Unbeknownst to her, so did Mrs. Tonk and Alice.
After their long walk, they were exhausted. They walked to the Campagnone Common Park and collapsed on the benches. They sat on opposite benches watching their children. They noticed each other and started to talk, Mrs. Tonk went to sit next to Mrs. Splash.
The topic of conversation , as you guessed , was Mag and Alice. They had a lot in common and soon realized they would be come good friends.
As they looked at their children, they were shocked , but not amazed, to find them climbing to the top of a very tall tree. After they told them to get down, the mothers looked at each other and realized what had just happened. The troublesome girls were now a torrid duo.
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