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 matter; but Bess did in a minute, and she began to laugh. "Now," she said, turning to Uncle Rob and folding her hands primly, "we've entertained ourselves by showing you what interests us most; what shall we do to entertain you?"

Isn't it odd how selfish people are, without even thinking of it?

Uncle Rob laughed. "Don't let me interfere with your pleasure," he said. "If you want to take me over into the school-yard and show me where you cut your names on the fence, and where you sharpen your pencils on the, and the marks outside of the windows where you pound the black-board erasers to get the chalk out, why come along. Maybe we can climb up and look in the windows and you can show me just where you sit, and tell me who sits everywhere else in the room. Come on," and he started toward the building.

And, do you know, those were just about the things that I'd been thinking that I wished we could do!

"No," I said, "we'll leave that for the next trip."

"Not much," said Uncle Rob. "Never leave