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 *ing the statement as if it were an implication of guilt.

"If you can't get milk, water must do," answered Tom, taking the loaf from his brother's hand and carefully breaking off a portion of it, to moisten it under the spigot.

The others watched him with keen interest, and Harry inquired:

"Do you s'pose I could have just a little bit, Tom?"

"No, I don't s'pose anything like it. You aren't a baby, are you? Only babies eat when 'tisn't dinner time, now."

"Once I used to eat when 'twasn't dinner. Once I did," answered the little boy, with something like a quiver of the lip.

"Does our father or our mother eat 'tween meals, Harry Smith?" demanded Tom, indignantly.

"No. Come on. If we can't have bread let's play hop-toad."

"All right. After I've set Penelope up against the wall so's we shan't knock her over," answered the brother.