DAISY, LILY, AND UNCLE JOHN.

“Do you know who I am?” said the gentleman. Daisy
opened her big eyes wide, and looked at him. “TI think,”
she said, “you are someone in the big album upstairs.”
“And I am sure you are someone in the big album,”
said Lily, who was standing by Daisy’s side. “I think
you are Uncle John,” said Daisy.: “I do hope you are,
because I want to ask you about ever so many things,”
The gentleman kissed her. “I am Uncle John,” he said;
“so ask away. Only I feel that I could talk to you
better if you sat on one knee and Lily on the other.”
The two children ‘settled themselves comfortably, and then

Daisy began, “You must have been a jolly boy! You

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know the time when you knocked your ball over

Jugt then Mamma came into the room. ‘Oh, Mamma,

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said Daisy ; “we want to ask him about the
-” Uncle John laughed, and
Mamma went away. But a minute later Nurse’s voice

was heard. Daisy and Lily said, ‘“ What a bother |”

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pall and the apple-pie, and

but Uncle John promised to answer the questions when

they came back, so they ran away cheerfully to Nurse.