. Little helpers . ket, and that itlooks much more as if it had fallen from the table. Come, putit back, and either wait till Monday, or go and buy the rest ofthe paper you need. No. 2. Papas a very careful man, and he wouldnt havegone off for two days and left anything worth while on the was almost in the basket, and its all the same, and I mean totake it, so there ! The other Johnny made no reply to this conclusive argument— in fact, he had no time, for the wrong Johnny rushed out ofthe library, shouting : — Tiny ! Oh, Tiny ! come at once ! Heres enough to finish the Monster, tail a
. Little helpers . ket, and that itlooks much more as if it had fallen from the table. Come, putit back, and either wait till Monday, or go and buy the rest ofthe paper you need. No. 2. Papas a very careful man, and he wouldnt havegone off for two days and left anything worth while on the was almost in the basket, and its all the same, and I mean totake it, so there ! The other Johnny made no reply to this conclusive argument— in fact, he had no time, for the wrong Johnny rushed out ofthe library, shouting : — Tiny ! Oh, Tiny ! come at once ! Heres enough to finish the Monster, tail and all! Tiny dropped some very im-portant work for her best dollwithout a moments hesitation,and reached the garret almostas soon as Johnny did. Oh, thats perfectly lovely!she panted, and its more thanenough! But oh, Johnny,she added, in a changed tone, if we should ever write poems and stories and things, afterwere grown up, do you believe that some dreadful editor willlet his children make kites out of them ?. LITTLE HELPERS. 45 Im afraid lie will, of mine, said Johnny, frankly, forthats about all theyd be good for, but you write much bettercompositions than I do, Tiny, for all youre so much youngerthan I am, so perhaps the editors will print yours. But itdoes seem a sort of shame, when you think of all the time itmust take them to do it, and how flat they must feel when itturns out to have been for nothing. Now this one — lookingat it critically — is really beautifully written, and on such goodpaper. Why, even the paper must cost them ever so much ! Isay, Tiny, its just as if we had to put on five dollar gold pieces,or gold dollars, for bait when we go fishing, and then had themnibbled off without catching anything. Ill tell that to papa —I think he might make a story, or a poem, or a fable, or some-thing out of it — dont you ? Yes, its just the kind of thing they use for a fable, saidTiny, approvingly, and so, in steady work at the kite, enlivenedby such intelle
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