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book, and a little slate in her bag;
and Johnny knew that she went to
school and learnt her lessons there.

Then he was a boy ; and May had
often told him that boys ought to be
more clever than girls. So when he
saw her, he couldn’t help going on
thinking, ‘If Fan is big ’nuff,
Johnny must be.’

Only he didn’t like that thought.
He was very cross with it for coming
into his head at all; and he tried to
push it back, and choke it, and make
it go away altogether.

But it was of no use trying. It
would come back; for, you see,
Johnny’s mother had often told him
that good little children always liked