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Dr Lavendar beamed, and looked proudly at Mrs Richie

"Because," David explained, "I love Goliath"

"Oh," said Dr Lavendar blankly

"It's blackening on one side," David announced, and slid down froain

"The red cheek is beginning to crack," said Dr Lavendar, deeply

interested; "sood, doesn't it, Mrs Richie?"

"Have you any little boys and girls?" David asked, watching the apple

"Come and climb on my knee and I'll tell you," she bribed hi briskly now under the

ih the red skin

"Have you?" he demanded

"No, David"

Here his interest in Mrs Richie's affairs flagged, for the apple

began to stea her with his shrewd

old eyes, asked her one or two questions; but, absorbed in the child,

she answered quite at randoainst his hair, and

whispered, softly: "Turn round, and I'll give you forty kisses"

Instantly David moved his head away The snub was so co he had not seen it "I once knew a

little baby," she said, trying to hide her embarrassment, "that had

curly hair the color of yours"