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make him learn. I can’t say, “Now,
Johnny, you are quite old enough,
and I’m going to teach you to read.
So you must be a good boy and try
how fast you can learn.” Mother
would, bthinie im sac had time so tor
I don’t believe I was one scrap bigger
when she made me learn; but I’m
not his mother, only his sister, so I
must manage another way.’

So May and Johnny went on for
a whole week. Oh, what a long
one it did seem! There was a
secret now between them, though
they did not think of it; but, you'll
see, they could not keep it long.

It was beginning to burn inside
each of them; and, I dare say, you