The Nursery, Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1875 by Various
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any thing of the others, and was very much surprised. Then mamma,
grandmamma, and grandpapa all burst out laughing. His father stepped aside, and there Dot saw the lemons in two rows. Then father said, "That was only a joke. Now, Dot, put them back again on the chair--quick!" And Dot ran and began to take away the lemons from the first row, and lay them on the black cushion of grandpapa's great arm-chair, one by one. One--two--three--four--five: he had only one more lemon to pick up from the first row; but when he came for it--my! there were two. Well, to tell the truth, Dot didn't notice this at first. He picked up one of the two, and thought to himself, "Only one left, Dot." But, I declare! there were _two_ left when he came back. "This is a long row," thought Dot. And every time he left _one_, he found _two_, till papa had quite used up the second row, from which he had been filling up the first. At last Dot _did_ see the last lemon, and then again he didn't see it, for when he looked for it, it wasn't _two_, as before, it wasn't there at all! "O papa! you have it behind you; and Dot will pull at your hand till you give up the lemon; and then you can't play any more tricks with your bright little boy." But Dot will go up to bed with Alice, and in the middle of the night mamma will hear him saying in his sleep, "Five, six, nine, 'lemon!" For Dot always says '_lemon,_ when he means _eleven_. |
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