The Carrier. 53

What have we here? A funny little couple
playing at being grown-up people. This carrier
is only a little boy, as you see. His name is
Freddy, and that is his little sister Lucy, who
has borrowed the housemaid’s cap for the occa-
sion. She comes out on to the door-step to

 

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receive the box which they pretend has just
arrived by the carrier. The box, in fact, is only
an empty one, which Master Fred took out of
the nursery a few minutes ago. The cart stand-
ing at the door, though, is the real carrier’s cart,
and has brought a real parcel for the children’s
mamma. The real carrier, too, is in the house,
having a glass of beer.