20 M ake- Believe

“*Honour bright!’ I answered; and
then he pretended to the others that he
had not doubted at all from the beginning.

“Well, of course I did not find the
treasure at once. I made the Gardener
hunt in about twenty places, and once he
nearly refused because he had to dig up a
cabbage. Then the children began to
get tired and grumbled a little. I did not
notice that, but Gardener began to think
he had dug pits enough: ‘I believe you'll
do better to go and play one of your
games,’ he said. ‘It don’t look as if there
was any treasure here.’

“T would not give up, but they grew -
tired. ‘Very well,’ I said, ‘we'll just try
once more, and then if we don’t find any-
thing, I will hunt by myself after you are
gone.’

“So I led them to the place where |
had hidden the treasure.

“ «Dig there, please,’ I said to Gardener;
and he dug, and the treasures were turned
up one after the other, like potatoes.”