shall be a man, and you only have five-shilling pieces, because youre only a girl.

    `ell, but, tom - if mot me give you to put into your pocket and spend, you knos ?

    `More rabbits? I dont  any more.

    `O, but tom, theyre all dead.

    tom stopped immediately in urned round to to feed em t, ening for a moment, but soon subsiding. `Ill pitco urned a love you, Maggie. You s go fiso-morroold you to go and see ts every day. he walked on again.

    `Yes, but I forgot - and I couldnt , indeed, tom. Im so very sorry, said Maggie, wears rus.

    `Youre a naugom, severely, `and Im sorry I boug love you.

    `O tom, its very cruel, sobbed Maggie, `Id forgive you, if you forgot anyt mind w you did - Id forgive you and love you.

    `Yes, youre a silly. But I never do forget t.

    `O, please forgive me, tom; my  oms arm, and laying  cheek on his shoulder.

    tom sopped again, saying in a per-emptory tone, `No listen. Arent I a good broto you?

    `Ye-ye-es, sobbed Maggie, her chin rising and falling convulsedly.

    `Didnt I t your fiser, and mean to buy it, and saved my money o purpose, and  go offee, and Spouncer foug?

    `Ye-ye-es... and I... lo-lo-love you so, tom.

    `But youre a naug  off my lozenge-box, and t, you let t drag my fis you to c, and you puse all for nothing.

    `But I didnt mean, said Maggie. `I couldnt .

    `Yes, you could, said tom, `if youd minded w you were doing. And youre a naug go fiso-morrow.