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CARROTS IN TROUBLE. 69

you, but I think it’s right you should know;
I am afraid you will have to punish Carrots
more severely than you punished me, for he’s
done worse than tell a story.” Maurice stop-
pel to take breath, and looked at his father
to see the effect of his words. Carrots had
stopped crying to listen to what Maurice was
saying; and there he stood, staring up with

his large brown eyes, two or three tears still

 

struggling down his cheeks, his face smeared
and red, and looking very miserable. Yet he
did not seem to be in the least ashamed of
himself, and this somehow provoked Mott and
hardened him against him.

«What's he been doing?” said their father,
looking at the two boys with more amuse-
ment than anxiety, and then glancing regret-
fully at the newspaper which he had been
comfortably reading when Mott’s knock came
to the door.

“He's done much worse than tell a story,”
repeated Maurice, “though for that matter he’s

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