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So May fee ‘enough to Ae with
her young charge; and a patient
little woman she was.

But then she had a secret notion
that she understood this Johnny of
hers better than any one else in the
world —yes, better even than mother
or father !

That might be a mistake, of
course; very likely it was; for no
doubt when they were strict or sharp
with him it was because they knew
that boys want rather a tight hand
over them, and had no intention that
Johnny should get to be a little
Turk by having his own way too
much.

They had seen other on you see,

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