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never once said, ‘Take care, Johnny,
that you don’t grow up a great, use-
less dunce like that,’ yet by degrees
the little laddie was taken with a
great fear lest he should.

So more than ever did he go on
trying his hand on all sorts of things,
and puzzling his young brain how
this was made, and how that was
done, by no means always to the
amusement of his elders—because,
like other little boys, he often found
it easier to get things to pieces than
to put them together again; and
made sila orts of litters about the
house or in the garden, and all, too,
without doing himself much good.

It would have been a good deal