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great determination. ‘ Johnny isn’t
a baby now; he knows he isn’t.
Johnny soon be a big man and build
houses.’

‘Johnny’s a very funny boy, I
think,’ replied his sage young sister,
who, between you and me, had an
idea, I must tell you, that there were
not many little boys so clever as her
brother, and who often used to think
that something must some day come
of this positive way that he had of
taking things into his head.