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CARROTS “ALL ZIGHT” AGAIN. 89:

made clear, and the difference between the two:
kinds of “sovereigns” shown to him. And he
told his mother all —all, that is to say, except
the “plan” for saving sugar and getting money
instead, which had first put it into his head to:
keep the half-sovereign to get a new doll for
Floss. He began to tell about the plan, but
stopped when he remembered that it was
Floss’s secret as well as his own; and when
he told his mother this she said he was quite
right not to tell without Floss’s leave, and that,
as nurse knew about it, they might still keep.
it for their secret, if they liked, which Carrots.
was very glad to hear.

He told his mother about his thinking per-
haps the fairies had brought the “sixpenny ;”
and she explained to him that nowadays, alas !
that was hardly likely to be the case, though
she seemed quite to understand his fancying it,
and did not laugh at him at all. But she spoke
very gravely to him, too, about ever taking
anything that was not his; and, after listening
and thinking with all his might, Carrots said he
thought he “kite under’tood.”