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sure Floss doesn’t know; I think the fairies
must have put it there.”

He wrapped the piece of money up carefully
in a bit of paper; and after considering where
he could best hide it, so that Floss should not
know till it was time to surprise her, he fixed on
a beautiful place. He hid it under one of the
little round saucers in his paint-box—a very
old paint-box it was, which had descended from
Jack, first to Mott, and then to Carrots, but
which, all the same, Carrots considered one of
his greatest treasures. é

When nurse came into the room, she found
the tidying of the drawer completed, and Car-.
rots sitting quietly by the window. He did not
tell her about the money he had found; it never
entered into his little head that he should speak
of it. He had got into the way of not telling
all the little things that happened to him to any

 

but Floss; for he was naturally a very quiet
child, and nurse was getting too old to care
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she once had done. Besides, he had deter- Re;