“But these are stones, not seeds.”
“Well, but I pretend, and that’s the same thing,” replied Tommy.
“Not exactly, Tommy; suppose, instead of eating those beans yesterday, you had only pretended to eat them, wouldn’t it have been better?”
“I won’t eat any more,” replied Tommy.
“No, not of those beans; but if you saw anything else which you thought you would like, I am afraid you would eat it, and be as ill and even worse than you were.”
“I like cocoa-nuts; why don’t we have some? there’s plenty upon the trees.”
“But who is to climb up so high, Tommy? Can you?”
“No; but why don’t Ready climb, or papa, or William?”
“I suppose they will get some by and by, when they are not so busy, but they have no time now.”
“I like turtle-soup,” replied Tommy.