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'Oh, yes, I will!' said he, laying on with redoubled ardour 'I'll cut into him like smoke! Eeh! ; but I hoped in time to be able to work a reformation

'Now you must put on your bonnet and shawl,' said the little hero, 'and I'll show you arden'

'And MINE,' said Mary Ann

Toesture; she uttered a loud, shrill scream, ran to the other side of me, and made a face at him

'Surely, Tom, you would not strike your sister! I hope I shall NEVER see you do that'

'You will soed to do it now and then to keep her in order'

'But it is not your business to keep her in order, you know--that is for--'

'Well, now go and put on your bonnet'

'I don't know--it is so very cloudy and cold, it see drive'

'No matter--you MUST come; I shall allow of no excuses,' replied the consequential little gentleht I e him It was too cold for Mary Ann to venture, so she stayed with her reat relief of her brother, who liked to have e one, and tastefully laid out; besides several splendid dahlias, there were some other fine flowers still in blooive rass, to a rerounds, because it contained HIS garden There were two round beds, stocked with a variety of plants In one there was a pretty little rose-tree I paused to admire its lovely blossoms

'Oh, never arden; look, THIS is mine'

After I had observed every flower, and listened to a disquisition on every plant, I was perreat pomp, he plucked a polyanthus and presented it to ious favour I observed, on the grass about his garden, certain apparatus of sticks and corn, and asked what they were

'Traps for birds'

'Why do you catch them?'

'Papa says they do harm'

'And what do you do with theive them to the cat; sometimes I cut them in pieces with my penknife; but the next, I mean to roast alive'