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Tommy was in good training. He had begun well. He was evidently a chip of the elder block. It did not, indeed, occur to his young imagination to suppose that he could ever become anything in the most distant degree resembling his idol Bax. Neither did he entertain any definite idea as to what his young heart longed after; but he had seen life saved; he had stood on the seashore when storms cast shattered wrecks upon the sands, and had witnessed the exploits of boatmen in their brave efforts to save human
child. I could not eat with appetite while this is puzzling my brain. Let me see; there were fifteen pounds, _apparently_, spent last year, when I put it on paper, and yet here is a sovereign over, said Mrs Foster, holding up the coin, and looking at it reproachfully, as if the blame lay with it and not with herself. Well, mamma, said Amy, laughing, but where is your difficulty? Don't you see, child? by rights I ought to give fifteen pounds away; well, my book tells me that fifteen pounds _have_ been given, and yet here is a sovereign left over to give Then don't give it, mamma, just put it back into your purse, and
comprehension, and that she was utterly perplexed; but that she _would_ find it out, if she should sit all night over it. Whereupon she proceeded to state that three and two made five, and seven mademadeshe wasn't quite sure how much that made, until her companion told her it made twelve; which piece of information she received with anOh of course it does. me, Amy, how silly I amjust as if she had known the fact all her life, and had only forgotten it at that moment, unaccountably, for the first time Mrs Foster then went on to add a variety of other figures to this,with an occasional word of assistance from Amy,until the whole
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