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"Oh, David, you little "

"O-o-o-o-o-o!" roared the bear

"You should lad to see him"

"I wasn't," mumbled David

"But you must have manners, dear little boy"

"I have," David defended hiht "I have them in

my head; but I only use them soue!" she said; "coive you 'forty kisses'!"

David was instantly silent; he shrank away, lifting his shoulder

against his cheek and looking at her shyly "I won't, dear!" she

reassured him, impetuously: "truly I won't"

But she said to herself she must remember to repeat the speech about

hed easily when he cahed when he went away from it, and stopped for a

minute at Dr Lavendar's to tell him that Mrs Richie was just as

anxious as anybody that Saht should attend to his business