"Well," said he, with surprise, "if that don't beat me! I saw mother fill it with haricot myself; I'm clean beat about it." "Tell me what you've done with it, then," almost screamed the angry girl.
"I really don't know what has become of it," he answered, with a bewildered air.

"I saw--I saw--I--I--" "You saw--you saw," replied the indignant Caddy, imitating his tone; and taking up the kettle, she began to examine it more closely.

"Why, this isn't even our kettle; look at this lid.

I'm sure it's not ours.

You've been stopping somewhere to play, and exchanged it with some other boy, that's just what you've done." Just then it occurred to Charlie that at the place where he had adjusted the dispute about the marbles, he had observed in the hands of one of the boys a kettle similar to his own; and it flashed across his mind that he had then and there made the unfortunate exchange.