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FLOSS’S BABY. 9

   

ways “Carrots.” He was too independent
and sensible to be counted a baby; and he
was never fond of being petted—and then,
too, “Carrots”? came so naturally !

I have said that Carrots loved his sister
Floss better than anybody or anything else
in the world. I think one reason of this was
that she was the very first person he could
remember in his life; and a happy thing for
him that it was so, for all about her that
there was to remember was nice and good.
and kind. She was four years older than he,
—four years old, that is to say, when he first
came into the world, and looked about him
with grave inquiry as to what sort of a place
this could be that he had got to. And the
first object that his baby-wise eyes settled
upon with content, as if in it there might be
a possible answer to the riddle, was Floss!

These children’s father and mother were
not very rich; and, having six boys and girls,

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you can quite easily imagine they had plenty

 

to do with their money. Jack was a great

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