Duke, the boy asked."Duke kneeled down, and he held the boy by the hand and told him, have you ever heard of the little Cherokee Indian girl that stay...ed alone in the woods for three nights and four days?" Duke asked."No Sir!" the boy said."Well, it's like this young man, one day she got separated from her tribe, it was cold and dark, her mother searched and searched for her and their entire tribe set out to find that little girl, and four days later they found her nestled up against a tree." . "Okay, here's the thing," she started only to be interrupted by Ashley. "We're serious, Kyle. No one can know about this," she implored."Ï get it. You don't have to worry about me saying anything to anyone. You have my word. But this must be really bad if you need to be this secretive," I reassured."So the thing is, Ky," Ashley began. "I'm not doing well in some of my classes. Like, it's terrible." Well, that's not that bad, Ash," I retorted. "Why so secretive about that? I mean, no offence,. "We are going to have to do something about that hair, it's too long. I'll be notifying your father this afternoon about that."What was just a few minutes seemed like an hour in her hell. Finally the bell rang and she ran out the door, tears still on her face. Her next class was math and in all the excitement, she had forgotten that Paul was in her next class. He WOULD see her like this.She didn't want to go to the classroom but she didn't want to remain in the hallway, either, since it was a. The cottages all had quite long gardens at the rear and from the upstairs back window we could see into all of them. I think that like Mary and her father’s cottage, the one on the other side must also have had a full-time occupant, as those gardens had been mostly given over to the planting of what looked like vegetable beds, whereas ours had been landscaped with ease of maintenance in mind, because it had a nice lawn, a few fruit trees, and a few bushes that could probably be left on their.