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ing a great many of the foolish things
that I saw there: and, papa, I’m
afraid that the woman who kept that
shop was not true.”

“Why ?” said Mr. W.

« Why, pa, when mother was look-
ing at the bonnets, she showed me
again the very things that mother
was not willing for me to buy; and
she told me in a low voice, that if I
wanted them very much, my mother
would let me take them. That was
not right, father.”

“0,” said Mr. Wingate, hitching
his chair round a little, “she only
wanted to please you; perhaps, too,
‘t was not the mistress of the shop,
but one of the girls.”

“We were talking of the shop,
and the goods, and the woman who
waited on us,” said Laura. “T know