TWENTY-NINE minutes past four
Oh ! do you think aunt Mirandy 'll ever let me go to Milltown with Mr. Cobb ? He 's asked me again , you know ; but one Saturday I had to pick strawberries , and another it rained , and I do n't think she really approves of my going . It 's TWENTY-NINE minutes past four , aunt Jane , and Alice Robinson has been sitting under the currant bushes for a long time waiting for me . Can I go and play ? '' `` Yes , you may go , and you 'd better run as far as you can out behind the barn , so ' t your noise wo n't distract your aunt Mirandy . I see Susan Simpson and the twins and Emma Jane Perkins hiding behind the fence . ''