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give up the thing he liked best, he knew he
must give up his accordion; and if he really
wanted to make Archie happy instead of
himself, he knew having it would do so. He
was very sorry to know this, and tried hard
to forget it, by pushing it back in a corner
behind a tall box of bricks, where it was quite
hid. Then he ran away as far from it as
possible. His mamma did not seem to re-
collect that he had anything unusual to do
that day, for she had said nothing about it,
and was sitting at her davenport writing, as
she always did. Tom used often to wonder
how it was he forgot the things he wanted to
remember; but now he wondered more how
it was he could not help remembering the
thing he most wanted to forget.

At a quarter to one Archie came. He
wore a thick overcoat, because it was raining
fast.

“After dinner,’ said his mamma, while
he was pulling it off, “you must go up-
stairs and play, for you won't be able to go

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out.