1 The ivy was the baffling thing.
2 The skipping-rope was a wonderful thing.
3 Almost the next moment a wonderful thing happened.
4 Th Big Good Thing doesn't stop to worrit, bless thee.
5 At that moment a very good thing was happening to her.
6 It was the queerest thing in the world to see the old fellow.
7 When her Ayah was dead there was no one to give a thought to the little thing.
8 Martha gave her hand a clumsy little shake, as if she was not accustomed to this sort of thing either.
9 She was a sweet, pretty thing and he'd have walked the world over to get her a blade o grass she wanted.
10 She looked an ugly, cross little thing and was frowning because she was beginning to be hungry and feel disgracefully neglected.
11 She was not frightened, because he was a harmless little thing who would not hurt her and he seemed in a hurry to get out of the room.
12 She went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.
13 So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also.
14 If one told them to do a thing their ancestors had not done for a thousand years they gazed at one mildly and said, "It is not the custom" and one knew that was the end of the matter.
15 She went to her walk outside the long, ivy-covered wall over which she could see the tree-tops; and the second time she walked up and down the most interesting and exciting thing happened to her, and it was all through Ben Weatherstaff's robin.
16 She did not know that this was the best thing she could have done, and she did not know that, when she began to walk quickly or even run along the paths and down the avenue, she was stirring her slow blood and making herself stronger by fighting with the wind which swept down from the moor.
17 She was very young, and used to a crowded cottage full of brothers and sisters, and she found it dull in the great servants' hall downstairs where the footman and upper-housemaids made fun of her Yorkshire speech and looked upon her as a common little thing, and sat and whispered among themselves.
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