Chapter XV
cites the most indications of some macabre childhood games Puritan children used to play. The
narrator describesas being at no loss of amusement while waiting for her mother. Pearl
"had flirted fancifully with her own image in a pool of water, beckoning the phantom
forth."
Later, she "picked up her apron full of pebbles, and,
creeping from rock to rock after these small sea-fowl, displayed remarkable dexterity in pelting
them."
Thet also might have laid out jellyfish to melt when the sun got
hot.
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