“ CARROTS.

know about nurse losing a_half-sovereign?
Well, Carrots had got it all the time; he took
it out of nurse’s purse, and hid it away in his
paint-box, without telling anybody. He can’t
deny it, though he tried to.”

“Carrots,” said his father sternly, “is this
Ieee

Carrots looked up in his father’s face; that
face, generally so kind and merry, was now all
gloom and displeasure—why? Carrots could
net understand, and he was too frightened and
miserable to collect his little wits together to
try to do so. He just gave a sort of little
tremble and began to cry again.

“Carrots,” repeated his father, “is this
Glee yeey

“T don’t know,” sobbed Carrots.

Now, Captain Desart, Carrots’s father, was,

as I think I have told you, a sailor. If any of

you children have a sailor for your father you
must not think I mean to teach you to be
disrespectful when I say that sailors are, there
is no doubt, inclined to be hot-tempered and