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 kept waiting," said his uncle, one day when they wore
 going out for a walk.
 Yes, uncle; but my shoes were not cleaned, and
 I had to wait for them, uncle," said Edward, although,
 long after he had put on his shoes, he had been seen
 by his mother and Lucy playing in the yard with the
 dog.
 "E Edward should not have said anything about the
 shoes," said his mother, looking very grave. The
 very next day, Edward had been helping the gar-
 dener's boy to hoe some lettuces, and instead of put-
 ting back his hoe in the tool-house, he had thrown
 it down, so that his uncle had picked it up when he
 went round the garden. I like my tools put back in
 their proper places," said he to Edward.
 Yes, uncle, I know; and I am always very par-
ticular, so I cannot help thinking that must be the hoe
that Jack used." There was something in the tone of
Edward's voice as he said this, which made Lucy, who
was present, feel quite uncomfortable.
 Don't you think you forgot to put it away ?" said
she in a low voice to him. Lucy often wished that;
Edward was not so afraid of Uncle Osborne, and had
courage to tell him the exact truth about such little
matters. How different it was with herself-although
it might have been thought beforehand that she would
be likely to feel much more afraid of her uncle than
Edward. It happened one day, when Captain Osborne
was out, that Lucy was sent by her mother to fetch a
letter which lay on the table in his room, and which
they knew he particularly wished to be sent to the
post, so that Lucy had no hesitation in going there by
herself to fetch it. She had found the letter, and was
leaving the room with it, when she felt something pull
at her elbow, and, looking round, she found that one