I should like it very much.

I have often wished I had had a little sister, and she can go out walks with me, you know.

It would be like having a big dog with one, only much jollier." "Yes," his mother said smiling; "and I shouldn't be surprised if you wanted to throw sticks into the water for her to fetch them out, and to be taking her out for a night's fishing, and be constantly bringing her home splashed with that nasty red mud from head to foot.

You would be a nice playmate for a little girl, Jim.

Perhaps it is that special advantage that the sergeant had in his mind's eye, when he was so anxious to put her with me." James laughed.
"I would see that she didn't come to any harm, anyhow, you know; and, after all, I suppose it was my picking her out of the sea that had something to do with his first thinking of putting her with you." "I suppose it had, Jim," she said more seriously.