DOUBTS AND FEARS "Well, what kept you so long ?" asked Peg, impatiently, as Ida rejoined her at the corner of the street.

"I thought you were going to stay all the forenoon.

And Where's your gingerbread ?" "He wouldn't let me have it," answered Ida.
"And why wouldn't he let you have it ?" said Peg.
"Because he said the money wasn't good." "Stuff and nonsense! It's good enough.

However, it's no matter.

We'll go somewhere else." "But he said the money I gave him last week wasn't good, and I promised to bring him another to-morrow, or he wouldn't have let me go." "Well, where are you going to get your dollar ?" "Why, won't you give it to me ?" said the child.
"Catch me at such nonsense!" said Mrs.Hardwick, contemptuously.