Charlie then wrote:--

"I saw _two hooks_ and _eyes_ just as I had begun

to _write_. Johnny brought mother's _knife_, which

he found lying on the _ground_. He joggled

mother's _chair_, and she _said_, 'There's a

_black_ mark on my paper, and oh, dear! the _boy_

has tipped over my _basket_.' That's all."

His mother read what Charlie had written, and said, "Pretty good for the

first time;" and off he went to play.

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