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“ CARROTS.”

answering things I ask him. He doesn’t say,

‘You couldn’t understand,’ or, ‘You'll know

when you're older,’ that horrid way.”

“He must be nice,’ said Floss, who had
secretly been trembling a little at the thought
of the strange uncle.

And he did turn out very nice. He was older
than Floss had expected; a good deal older
than auntie, whom he sometimes spoke to as.
if she were quite a little girl, in a way which
amused the children very much. At first he
seemed very quiet and grave; but after a while
Floss found out that in his own way he was
very fond of fun, and she confided to auntie
that she thought he was the funniest person
she had ever seen. I don’t know if auntie told
him this, or if he took it as a compliment, but
certainly he could not have been offended, for
every day, as they learned to know him better,
the children found him kinder and kinder.

So they were very happy at Greenmays, and.
no doubt would have gone on being so but for
one thing. There came bad news of their

mother.