84 DOGGED JACK.

 But to all Jack's blandishments Polly answered
not one word; and as soon as she saw him run down
the avenue with his school books on his back, she
flew to the nursery.and threw herself into her faithful
old nurse's arms.
 Poor nurse could not think what was the matter,
for at first Polly was unable to speak from sobs.
At last her grief found words.
 "Jack wanted to give me back my own present!
The beautiful valentine that I buyed for him with
my silver penny! Then daddy made a naughty
wink at him, and then Jack tried to pretend it was all
a joke! But I knowed it was not. Oh, he did want
to give me back my own present that I buyed him!"
 And it was a full hour before nurse could calm
little Polly, or abate her bitter grief as to the wrong
her beloved Jack had done her!