72 Tom Seven Years Old.

 

won't, then. I’ll give it to mamma instead.
Now that I have written it all through by
myself so nicely, I’d like to send it to some-
body to read. But I would much rather the
Queen herself had got it, for I meant it for
her. And I did so want to visit her in her
palace, and see her sitting on her throne with
her crown and sceptre !”