3 Fohuny's New Shoes.

 

talked to him, she was earnestly try-
ing to persuade five of Johnny’s ten
toes to go into one of a first-rate
pair of new shoes. '

‘Me heard him! me heard bang,
bang on the door; and me helped
to open the basket,’ cried Master
Johnny, with a revived enthusiasm
about the great event.

‘And you remember the dear
granny, too, don’t you? said May,
quite as eagerly.

‘No, me don’t,’ said Johnny.

‘You don’t! repeated his sister ;
‘and she was so good to you; and
it’s only just one year since she went
away—only last summer! Well,
you have got a short memory I’