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get up, Carrots dear; that will be good for
just now. Being good always comes in little
bits like that.”

« But in heaven the being good will be all in
one great, big piece ; that’s how it will be, isn’t
it?” said Carrots, as he got out of bed and
>egan hunting for his slippers.

- I cannot tell you half the history of that first

day at Greenmays, or of many others that fol-
lowed. They were very happy days; and they
‘were full of so many new pleasures and inter-
ests for Carrots and Floss, that I should really
have to write another book to tell you all about
them. Everybody was kind to the children,
and everything that could be thought of to
make them feel “at home” was done. And
Greenmays was such a pretty place! Carrots
could hardly miss his dear old sea, once he had
learned to make friends with the hills. At first
he could do nothing but gaze at them in aston-
ishment.

“T didn’t think hills were so big, or that they

would have so many faces,’ he said to Floss

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