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lip quiver again. ‘ Johnny must be
very kind to everybody, and then
everybody will love him.’

That cleared away the choky feel-
ing, and the little boy slipped off his
mother’s lap, and trotted off with his
sister to have a game in the garden.

But it was not very long before he
got into another sad piece of trouble,
that I must tell you about; and it
was a worse trouble, much, to my
mind, than this with the strange
dog.

It would be a good thing if one
never had to tell such stories, as I
must now relate, about any little
boys; but then, if they happen, we

must tell them, or else people would