94 Tey listens to Mr. Dowt Like,

 

to en eee was good an een or
if they didn’t “ke it they learnt all
the same, that they might grow up
to be wise men and women; and
that it was only the naughty, lazy
ones who would not try to learn as
soon as they were big enough.

And Johnny knew very well that
the great God up in Heaven could
see quite well when he was trying to
be a very good boy, and that he
knew, too, when he made excuses.

So that was how it was, that
Mr. Ought began to talk again very
fast, and very, loud inside _ this
Johnny’s little heart. And soon he
and Mr. Don’t Like began to have
such a hot wrangle together that