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WINNIE’S LESSON.

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ALINNIE MAITLAND thought she had never
<< enjoyed a game so much. You see, it was
\. a lovely day, for one thing, and then Hetty
: Winstone and May Jackson were such
F delightful girls; and the shrubbery was
4" such a splendid place for play!
- After a while the girls, feeling tired, sat
Ire, down to rest. ‘Suddenly Winnie cried’ out,
«Where's Roy?” and looked to right and left for the
little three-year-old brother, whom she had been entrusted
to take to the shrubbery for an airing. The little fellow
was nowhere to be seen. Winnie began to cry. ‘ Oh, what
shall I do?” she wailed, wringing her hands. ‘I’ve lost
him!” The three girls searched eagerly in the shrubbery,
but all to no purpose; and at length Winnie was obliged
to go home. Bursting in at the kitchen door, she nearly
overturned Mary, the servant, who was scrubbing the floor.
“Oh, Mary!” she gasped, “have you seen him?—has he
come home?” ’‘‘ Why—who—what’s the matter?” said Mary,
bewildered. ‘Why, Roy! I’ve lost him! Oh, what shall
I do2” 4“ But my dear,’ said’ Mary, “Roy 1s. upstairs,
asleep. Mrs. Baker found him wandering in the road, and
brought him home.” ‘ Oh!” said Winnie blankly.

Winnie’s mother said very little to her careless daughter,
who was not allowed to have charge of the baby again for
many weeks—a terribly hard punishment! You may be sure
that when, some months later, Roy went out with Winnie

once more, there was no fear whatever that he woul be lost.
Winnie fad learnt her lesson.