You get Mary to cut out a lot of the leaves of your book that have no pictures, and that will make it like a real scrap-book; and then I'll give you a lot of my scraps and pictures to paste over what's left of the stories, and you'll have such a painting-book as you never had in all your life before." So we did.

And Arthur was very good, for he gave Chris pictures that I know he prized, because Chris liked them.

But the very first picture he gave him was the "Crane and Water-reeds." I thought it so good of Arthur to be so nice with Chris that I wished I could have helped him over his water-wheel.

He had put Japan out of his head since the disappointment, and spent all his play-time in making mills and machinery.

He did grind some corn into flour once, but it was not at all white.