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Mary, his elder cousin, promised to give him a present if he learned the lesson well.
That made Tom do his best – and be a success. So Mary gave him a new knife worth twelve and a half cents. Although the knife could not cut anything, Tom was delighted. He was going to try the knife on the furniture when he was called off to dress for Sunday-school.
Mary took care of the process. She made Tom put on a suit that had been used only on Sundays during two years. He now looked much better and felt very uncomfortable. He hoped that Mary would forget his shoes, but she asked Tom to put them on:
‘Please, Tom – be a good boy.’
So he got into the shoes. Mary was soon ready, and the three children went to Sunday-school – a place that Tom hated with his whole heart; but Sid and Mary were fond of it.
At the door Tom asked another pupil:
‘I say, Billy, have you got a yellow ticket?’
‘Yes.’
‘What’ll you take for it?’
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