ROBERT’s CLEARING 73

“O,ona beam. There were four eggs. My
father brought in three, and I brought in three.”

“OQ Eben,” said Lucy, “ that is not right.
Three and three don’t make four.”

“Then perhaps it was ten,” said Eben.
“ Yes, I believe it was ten.”

“ Why, no, Eben,” said Lucy ; “it couldn’t be
ten.”

“Why not ?” asked Eben.

« Because,” said Lucy, “ three and three don’t
make ten.”

‘What do they make?” said Eben.

“ Why, they make six,” replied Lucy. “Tl
get a little stick, and make some marks upon the
ground, and show you.” .

So Lucy got a stick, and began making marks
upon a smooth place in the road, corresponding
with the number of eggs. On more mature re-
flection, Eben recollected that he brought in two
eggs, one in each hand, and that his father carried
in two in one hand, and one in the other. He
had one egg, he said, in the hand which held the
lantern.

“Then there must have been five eggs in all,”
said Lucy.

In order to prove this to Eben’s satisfaction,
she mede two marks for the eggs which he carried