Fohnny listens to Mr. Dow t Like. 89

 

wiser, you see, if he had just set to
work to learn the things that little
boys should learn, and many of which
May could have taught him so very
well.

But wise heads are not often found
on young shoulders; and a great deal
of this was that good-for-nothing
Mr. Don’t Like’s doing, whom, in
the end, poor Johnny so often found
it necessary to send about his busi-
ness.

He was getting a bigger boy every
day, as I said, but still when he saw
that spelling-book lying on the shelf,
and something inside him whispered,
‘Hadn’t you better begin to learn
those letters that May May wanted