May Millstone was putting out the silverware on the tea table when the front door opened with a slight creak of hinges. May looked towards the entry to see who it was, in walked a mud covered Dimple with a worried smirk on her soiled little face. May's mouth dropped open, "Dimple! what in the name of Middle-Earth happened to you!"
Dimple grinned a little bigger "well... the pig got out and ran all over the pla--" her mother stopped her with a gasp, "Dimple! I washed that floor this morning!please go get a bath!!!"
Dimple spun on her heels and walked swiftly through the entry and into the hallway and skipped into the bathroom.
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When Dimple came out, her bright strawberry-blonde hair curled like Morning Glories climbing around a trellis. She halted in the hallway noticing the mud that now covered the floor...she was in for it. she walked through the hall and into the entryway, the clatter of a teacup told her that tea had been served. she picked up her pace and almost ran to the kitchen. Her Dad, mother and brother were all sitting at the small round table in the far right corner eating scones and drinking tea. Dimple walked to her seat and smiled at her mother, "I'm clean now!" May looked at the floor "you may be but my floor is not." Dimple could guess what was coming next, "You are in charge of cleaning up the mud mess." May gave Dimple a stern glance, "and you are also in charge of cleaning up a certain bag of apple cores I found in the pantry this morning."
Dimple frowned, yet another thing she had forgotten to clean up... it is very difficult to be a sneak if you can't remember to do things! Dimple thought.
but she said yes ma'am and after tea she went to work on the floors.
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