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CHAPTER XV.
THE CHAPTER THAT TROTTY DID N’T PRINT.

ROTTY was growing so much better all this time, that

he had begun to go out to ride, and to sit in the front

yard or on the piazza. One day his mother called for him

to go over to the Junction with her, with Mr. Bogg’s old

white pony, just as the children had assembled for their day’s

work at the story-book. ‘Trotty said, as he limped off, that
they ’d better go right on; and they thought so too.

“T tell you!’ said Lill.

“ Well, what?” asked Nate.

“It’s just our chance,” said Lill, “ to print that one about
the compositions that we did n’t know what on earth to do
with. It would be too bad to leave it out, and he’d make
such a fuss! It’s real short. Well hurry up, and he’ll
never notice — you "Il see — till the book is all done, and too
late for him! Come now! Hurry up! Fly round!”

They hurried up, they flew round, they laughed and en-
joyed it mightily; it was all over by the time Trotty got
home, and the book laid away in its place. They called
the story

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