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gold paint and even his favourite brushes.
Afterwards he said he thought he had
better ‘keep the brushes, because he might
have to work again some day, but I took
the paint.

“Now, at first I did not know what to
do with it: you can’t paint pictures all in
gold. And then Frank and the others
came one afternoon, and we played in the
garden. ‘Let us hunt for treasure,’ said
Frank.

“<«T should like that,’ I said, but the
others wanted to play a real game, for
they knew the treasure would have to be
make-believe. They generally do what
Frank and I want them to do, but that day
they would not. So at last, not thinking
much, but only trying to persuade them, I
said, ‘You say there is no treasure. You
don’t know all that I know about the
garden.’

“Then they all asked me what I knew
about the garden, and they were quite
certain that there was a treasure I could

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