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they came all alone: and grand-
mother wondered; and grandfather
laughed, and chucked them each
under the chin, and told May she
was a brave little woman, and a good
girl too, for thinking so much of her
old granddaddy.

And then he showed them both
his poor bruised knee, and bid them
tell father and mother how at first
he thought he had broken his head,
and what a shaking he had got, so
that he must stop in bed a bit to get
over it.

After that, Johnny got what he
liked even better than buttered toast,
and that was, a nice slice of plum-
cake. He enjoyed it so much, that