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seemed perfectly convinced that such
things as books and slates, to say
nothing of copy-books, were beyond
his tender years.

Johnny was never ‘a bigger man
*nuff’? when such things were pro-
posed; and May soon forbore to
produce them, though she would
sometimes say :—

‘Ah! Johnny; you'll be a dunce,
you know. You're not learning to
be a big man one bit.’

Wes mei, he would answer
complacently. ‘Me learn to dig,
me learn to build big house.’

That was because he had some
pieces of wood and tile and brick
in the garden, with which he used