Oswald didn't so much mind paying for the beastly scissors, but he hates injustice of every kind.
"He's such a little kid," said Dicky, and of course H. O. said he wasn't a little kid, and it very nearly came to being a row between them. But Oswald knows when to be generous; so he said—;
"Look here! I'll pay sixpence of the scissors, and H. O. shall pay the rest, to teach him to be careful."
H. O. agreed: he is not at all a mean kid, but I found out afterwards that Alice paid his share out of her own money.
Then we wanted some new paints, and Noël wanted a pencil and a halfpenny account-book to write poetry with, and it does seem hard never to have any apples. So, somehow or other nearly all the money got spent, and we agreed that we must let the advertisement run loose a little longer.
"I only hope," Alice said, "that they won't have got all the ladies and gentlemen they want before we have got the money to write for the sample and instructions."
And I was a little afraid myself, because it seemed such a splendid chance; but we looked in the paper every day, and the advertisement
