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keep up a game of battledoor, if our eyes were looking to some other object. (See frontispiece.)

“This is the first game I ever lost in my life,” said James.

“You would not have lost this,” said Sarah, “if you had minded what you were doing, instead of thinking about aunt’s apples.”

James jumped up from the ground when Sarah mentioned the apples.

“Come, Sarah,” said he; “come: I know they were apples;