Father's Plan. 2903

 

‘Me so glad the cruel boys didn’t
get all the ’ickle birds.’

‘Yes, said May. ‘ But I think it
is time you forgot about those boys,
Johnny. Perhaps, if you had been
a big boy, you would have done just
the same.’

‘Me wouldn’t, me sure! cried
Johnny, indignantly. ‘Me isn’t a
cruel boy; is me? and he got very
red as he spoke.

‘No; but perhaps they are taking
care of the others; you don’t know.’

‘Yes, said the little man; ‘but
the papa and mamma don’t like it,
me sure. Me dare say they is c’ying
for their babies.’

‘I know it wasn’t good to take