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Mrs Pocket was sitting on a garden chair under a tree, reading, with

her legs upon another garden chair; and Mrs Pocket's two nurse- about them while the children played "Ma Mr Pip" Upon which Mrs Pocket received nity

"Master Alick and Miss Jane," cried one of the nurses to two of the

children, "if you go a bouncing up against them bushes you'll fall over

into the river and be drownded, and what'll your pa say then?"

At the same time this nurse picked up Mrs Pocket's handkerchief, and

said, "If that don't make six tihed and said, "Thank you, Flopson," and settling herself

in one chair only, resumed her book Her countenance immediately assumed

a knitted and intent expression as if she had been reading for a week,

but before she could have read half a dozen lines, she fixed her eyes

upon me, and said, "I hope your mamma is quite well?" This unexpected

inquiry putin the

absurdest way that if there had been any such person I had no doubt she

would have been quite well and would have been very ed and

would have sent her compliments, when the nurse ca up the pocket-handkerchief, "if that don't

of this afternoon, Mum!" Mrs

Pocket received her property, at first with a look of unutterable

surprise as if she had never seen it before, and then with a laugh of