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horrid boy, who was going to throw stones at
them.” |

“ But I wasn’t,” said Tom, “and they should
have known.”

He still felt cross, and his face and hands
were still stinging with the pain. But the
next day, when it was gone, and his eyes were
well, and when he ran down to the stream
where the wasp-bikes were, with Archie, he
really had forgiven them with all his heart.
Only he did not again venture to go near
their houses, in case they might make a
mistake a second time, and fancy he was an
enemy, and not a friend.