“What is all the same thing?” said Lucy.
“Why, hens and chickens,” said Royal.
“O Royal,” said Lucy, “they are very different indeed.” Lucy looked through the bars of the hen-coop, at the hen and chickens, and was quite surprised that Royal could say that they were all the same thing.
“In a bargain, Lucy, I mean; in a bargain, I mean. If you make a bargain about hens, you mean all the chickens too.”
“I didn’t, I am sure,” said Lucy; “I never thought of such a thing as the chickens; and besides, you did not make me such a garden as you promised me.”
“Why, yes I did,” said Royal.
“No,” said Lucy, “you told me an equivocation.”
Royal laughed.
“You did, Royal; you know you did; and Miss Anne said so.
“I think it was a falsehood, myself,” continued Lucy, “or almost a falsehood.”