DE Cae Se SOE

“ CARROTS.”

  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
     
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
     
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

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“Don’t tease him any more about it,” she
said; “it’s plain he doesn’t know, and I
wouldn’t like the other servants to hear.
Just forget about it, Master Carrots, my dear ;
perhaps nurse will find it some day.”

So Carrots, literally obedient, asked no more
questions. He only said to himself, with a
puzzled look on his face, “A half-sovereign !
I didn’t know nurse had any sovereigns. I
thought only Floss had—and I never saw
any broken in halfs!”

But as no more was said in his hearing
about the matter, it passed from his innocent
mind.

Nurse thought it right to tell the children’s
mother of her loss, and the girls and Maurice
heard of it too. They all were very sorry for
nurse, for she took her own carelessness rather
sorely to heart. But by her wish nothing was
said of it to the two other servants, one of
whom had only lately come, though the other
had been with them many years.

“Td rather by far bear the loss,” said nurse,

“than cause any ill-feeling about it, ma’am.”