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growth Never send 'ehed at the idea, and this pleased Ike, who looked at me from top

to toe

"You couldn't load a cart," he said at last

"Couldn't I?" I replied "Why not? It seester See all day, but you try, and I'ot to put the baskets in the cart," I argued

"Only got to put the baskets in the cart!" gru," I continued

"What I've been doing!" he said "I' up A cart ain't a wagon"

"Well, I know that," I said, "a wagon has four wheels, and a cart two"

"Send I may live," cried Ike "Why, he is a clever boy He knows a

cart's got theels and a wagon four"

He said this in a low serious voice, as if talking to hi my wisdo at me, and I hastened to add: "Oh, you knohat I mean!"

"Yes, I knohat you mean, but you don't knohat I mean, and if

you're so offle clever you'd best teach me, for I can't teach you"

"But I want you to teach me," I cried "I've co a cart?"