Jack's Two Sovereigns

BOB SAVES JEM FROM THE FALLING HOUSE
BY ANNIE S. FENN Author of “Little Dolly Forbes” “A Year with Nellie” “Olive Mount” &c.
ILLUSTRATED
BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY

JACK’S TWO SOVEREIGNS.
MADGE, do leave those horrid old stockings, and let’s all have a game at ‘Beggar my neighbour.’ It would keep Jem and Jack from quarrelling.”
“I can’t, unless you’ll darn them for me. There are eight pairs, and they ought to be done to-night ready for the morning.”
“Well, take your chair and sit between them, to keep them apart.”
“What’s the use of that? If Jack were here and Jem in Australia, they’d quarrel somehow. How industrious you are to-night, Edie!”
“I am tired.”
“Well, as you’re the only person that’s tired, of course it’s quite fair that you should do nothing.”