“CARROTS.” as big people sometimes are. And it all comes: back to me so—even the old washerwoman’s cottage I can see so plainly, and the dear straggly little garden! For you see, children, I am telling you the history of a veal little boy and girl, not fancy children ; and that is why, though there is noth- ing very wonderful about Floss and Carrots, I hope the story of their little pleasures and sorrows and simple lives may be interesting to you. But I must finish about the visit to the: washerwoman in another chapter. I have made. this one rather too long already.