THE DOLL AND HER FRIENDS. 11

“ Why, Geoffrey,” “exclaimed my first friend,
“ where have you been all this time? I have been
hunting every where for you.”

Geoffrey did not immediately answer, his mouth
being, as I perceived, quite full. When at last he
could open his lips, he said: “ Will you have a
cheesecake ?”

“No, thank you,” replied his friend. “ We must
20 home to dinner so soon, that you will scarcely
have time to choose your things. Where have you
been ?”

“ At the pastrycook’s stall,” answered Geofirey ;
“and I must go back again before I can buy any
thing. I left my five shillings there to be changed.”

The boys returned together to the stall, and 1
saw its mistress hand a small com to Geoffrey.

“ Where is the rest?” said he.

“ That is your change, sir,” she replied.

‘¢ Why, you don’t mean that those two or three
tarts and jellies cost four and sixpence!” he ex-
claimed, turning’ as red as the rosiest doll at my
side. (

J think you will find it correct, sir,” answered
the shopkeeper. “ ‘T'wo jellies, sixpence each, make
one shilling; two custards, sixpence each, two shil-
lings; a bottle of ginger-beer, threepence, two and
threepence; one raspberry cream, sixpence, two and