CARROTS IN TROUBLE.

scarcely knew the value of money! Where
can he have learnt such cunning? you say you

are sure he was told of nurse’s having lost a.

half-sovereign ?” ;

“Oh, yes!” said Mott ; “he confesses to that
much himself.”

“ Floss told me,” said Carrots.

«Then, how can you pretend you didn’t know
this was nurse's ?— taking it out of her drawer,
too,” said his father.

“T don’t know. I didn’t take it out of her
drawer; it was ‘aside Floss’s doll,” said Car-
rots.

“He’s trying to equivocate,” said his father.
‘Then he turned to the child again, looking more
‘determined than ever.

“Carrots,” he said, “I must whip you for this.
Do you know that I am ashamed to think you
are my son? If you were a poor boy you
might be put in prison for this.”

Carrots looked too bewildered to understand.
«Tn prison,” he repeated. “ Would the prison-

man take me?”

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