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72 “CARROTS.”

  

child, according to his ideas, was to be treated
exactly like another; why the same offence
should deserve severer punishment with a self-
willed, self-confident, bold, matter-of-fact lad,
such as Maurice, than with a timid, fanciful,
baby-like creature, as was his little Fabian,
he could not have understood had he tried,

Nurse knew all this by long experience ; no
wonder, kind though she knew her master to
be, that she trembled when Mott announced
his intention of laying the whole affair before
his father.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  

But poor Carrots did not know anything
about it. “Papa” had never been “cross”
to him before, and he was far from clearly
understanding why he was “cross” to him
now. So he just sobbed, and said, «I don't
know,” which was about the worst thing he
could possibly have said in his own defence,
though literally the truth.

“No or yes, sir,” said Captain Desart, his
voice growing louder and sterner,— I think he
really forgot that it was a poor little shrimp of