Maisie in Naughtyland
Maisie Alice Little was a 8 year old girl who had been living with her father. Her mother had died when she had been just three so it had just been the two of them. Well the two of them plus Nanny. Maisie didn't like her nanny too much. Nanny said her father spoiled her. Maisie thought Daddy treated her like a little princess which was just right. Nanny thought the girl could use a good spanking. Daddy didn't believe in those.
But then Daddy died as well, and Maisie had to go live in an orphanage. Maisie didn't like the matron at the orphanage, either. She was too much like Nanny. She believed in spankings as well, and spanked her own children, but they weren't allowed at the orphanage
Today Maisie was sitting under a tree reading about her namesake. Alice Liddel -- the name sounded almost exactly like hers -- except for the first name, of course. That Maisie had had a marvelous adventure in Wonderland and a second one through the looking glass. Daddy had read her those stories many times in many forms, but today Maisie was looking through the orphanage's copy book with the wonderful Tenniel illustrations. She was supposed to be doing her lessons for her quiz that afternoon, and she wasn't supposed to have this book outside, but she'd be careful. Besides even if she was caught, she wouldn't be spanked.
Just then a rabbit hopped by. Maisie looked up. Well he wasn't dressed, he didn't have a watch, and he didn't say he was late, but he surely was hurrying.
She put her book down and raced after the rabbit. The rabbit ran along the hedgerow. Maisie couldn't keep up, but she saw a gap in the hedgerow. Perhaps the rabbit had gone inside. Maisie did as well. Then all of a sudden she was falling. But it was a slow fall not a fast one. And soon she found herself in a room. It looked like a very old fashioned room. Maisie began to look around.
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