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`` I guess it 's well for you Ann Toby 's what she is , or she 'd cheat you out o ' your eye-teeth ! '' `` Well , '' answered Lucindy , easily , `` I ai n't goin ' to worry about my eye-teeth . If I be cheated out of 'em , I guess I can get a new set . '' At five o'clock , they had some cookies , ostensibly for Claribel , since Mrs. Wilson could not stay to tea ; and then , when the little maid had taken hers out to the front steps , Lucindy broached a daring plan , that moment conceived . `` Say , Jane , '' she whispered , with great pretence of secrecy , `` what do you think just come into my head ? Do you s ` pose Mattie would be put out , if I should give Claribel a hat ? '' `` Mercy sakes , no !