the different things back again in order. It
took him a good while, and his face got rather
red with stooping down to the floor to pick up
all the things he had deposited there; for the
drawer itself was too heavy for him to lift out
bodily, if, indeed, such an idea had occurred to
him. It was the middle drawer of the cup-
board, the top part of which was divided into
shelves, where the nursery cups and saucers and
those sorts of things stood. The drawer above
Floss’s was nurse’s, where she kept her work
and a few books and a little note-paper, and so
on; and the drawer at the bottom, so that he
could easily reach it, was Carrots’s own.

One end of Floss’s drawer was given up to
her dolls. She still had a good many; for
though she did not care for them now as much
as she used, she never could be persuaded to
throw any of them away. But they were not
very pretty ;-even Carrots could see that, and
Carrots, to tell the truth, was very fond of
dolls.

“Tf I had some money,” he said to himself,

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