Fohunys New Shoes. 13

try to like them to please granny,
and never mind what Mr. Don’t Like
says about it.’

And Johnny let the shoes come
on, one after another, and then slid
down off the bed to see how he
could walk in them.

Now there was no carpet in that
room; and do you know those shoes .
made such a delightful noise in
tramping over the boards, that their
young owner soon shouted again
with pleasure.

So May May, when she sat down
to write her letter to granny—as she
had to do very soon after—was able
to put in it that ‘Johnny was in
great joy about his new shoes, and