92 Fohnuny listens to Mr. Don't Leke.

know how ines onable it is hen
secrets take to doing that.

Johnny found his particularly dis-
agreeable, because every time he
looked in the glass he seemed to get
taller; and sometimes he began to
be quite afraid that he might wake
up some morning and find himself a
great tall man, like the one who
went by the window so often. And
then he thought of a certain little
girl, who also went past every day—
a tiny child she was, who went tod-
dling along by her elder sister’s side—
and not so tall as himself, Johnny
was nearly sure, though he was
afraid to ask her to stand by him and
measure ; and yet she carried a little