“ CARROTS.”

“whenever I am cross, I shall fancy my tongue
is bewitched, just to see if it would be best to
say the opposite of what I was going to say.
Wouldn't it be fun?”

«Better than fun, perhaps, Miss Flossie,”
said nurse. “I think it would be a very good
thing if big people, too, were sometimes to
follow the fairy’s rule.”

“People as big as you, nursie?” asked Car-
rots.

« Oh yes, my dear!” said nurse. “It’s a les-
son we're all slow to learn; and many haven't
learnt it by the end of their threescore years
and ten—‘to be slow to anger,’ and to keep
our tongues from evil.”

“ That’s out of the Bible, nursie, all of it,”
said Floss, as if not altogether sure that she
approved of the quotation.

Cecil laughed.

« What are you laughing at, Cis?” said Floss.
“Tt zs out of the Bible.”

“ Well, no one said it wasn’t,” said Cecil.

“Cis,” said Carrots, “will you read us an-

other story, another day?”