do that way — Carrots and I —about sugar,
I mean?”
“IT don’t see that it would do you any harm,”
said nurse. “ You must ask your mamma.”
But Floss hesitated.

“TY shouldn’t much like to ask mamma,” she

   

said ; and Carrots, who was listening so intently
that he had forgotten all about his bread and
milk, noticed that Floss’s face grew red. “I
shouldn’t much like to ask mamma, because,
nurse dear, it is only that we want to get
money for something for ourselves; and if we
told mamma, it would be like asking her to give

us the money. It wouldn’t be any harm for

   

us not to eat any sugar in our tea for a month;
and you could keep the sugar in a packet all
together, nurse, and ¢hen you might tell mamma

that we had saved it, and she would give us a

 
 

shilling for it. It would be quite worth a shil-

    
 

ling, wouldn’t it, nurse?”

 
 

“Oh, yes,” said nurse; “I am sure your

    
 

mamma would say it was.’ Then she con-

 
 

sidered a little. She was one of those truly