Kitty sat very demurely on her knee,pretending to watch the progress of the winding, and now and then putting out one paw and gently touching the ball, as if it would be glad to help, if it might.

What that you say?' (pretending that the kitten was speaking.) 'Her paw went into your eye?

Pretending to read a smeary newspaper long out of date, which had nothing half so legible in its local news, as the foreign matter of coffee, pickles, fish-sauces, gravy, melted butter, and wine, with which it was sprinkled all over, as if it had taken the measles in a highly irregular form, I sat at my table while he stood before the fire.

"Long enough to be tired of it," returned Drummle,pretending to yawn, but equally determined.

There were fields in which he could play hispretending games, and there was a beautiful house called Gad's Hill near, at which he could go to look and dream that if he were very good and very clever he might some day be a fine gentleman and own that house.

He felt that he was forgotten and neglected by every one, and that never never more would he be able to read books and playpretending games, or do anything that he loved.