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chuckled, and said, ‘ Here’s another
A, May, and here’s another ;’ until
at last they were tired of looking for
that letter any more. So then May
taught him bouncing B; and they
hunted for that in the same way, and
then for C’s. Afterwards, she went
back again, to make sure that Johnny
had not forgotten the two first ; and
then they stopped.

For May had been thinking that
she must get Johnny to like his les-
son, and not tire: of it, or else he
would soon say again that he
couldn’t learn, and declare that he
wasn’t a ‘ bigger boy ’nuft,’ as he did
before.

But after the lesson was done, I