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Updated: May 8, 2025
"It is his doing and his money!" said my father; "good actions have mended the bad." "What!" cried my mother, when she had learned all; "and your poor domino-box that you were so fond of! We will go back to-morrow and buy it back, if it costs us double." "Shall we buy it back, Pisistratus?" asked my father. "Oh, no no no! It would spoil all," I cried, burying my face on my father's breast.
I ran in for the box, and, not a little proud of walking with my father upon the high-road, we set out. "Papa," said I by the way, "there are no fairies now." "What then, my child?" "Why, how then can my domino-box be changed into a geranium and a blue-and-white flower-pot?"
He went to the window and looked out for some time, and then he came back to the table and sat down. He took his pen and began to print on the lid of the domino-box, which was of smooth white wood. He could print names and titles of things very neatly, a good deal better than I could. When he had finished, he got up and began to get ready for bed, leaving the box on the table.
"They'll give you five sorts of cheese for breakfast, and poison you at all other meals. You'll live in an atmosphere of dried fish and engine-room oil, and you'll be driven half-mad by children who squall, and other children who rattle the saloon domino-box all through the watches. You'd much better come with me. I'll drop you at a steamer's port in the Channel somewhere some time.
The next morning my father found me seated by myself under a tree in the garden; he paused, and looked at me with his grave bright eyes very steadily. "My boy," said he, "I am going to walk to ," a town about two miles off: "will you come? And, by the by, fetch your domino-box. I should like to show it to a person there."
"And by the way," he added, as the smiling shopman looked over his books for the entry, "I think my little boy here can show you a much handsomer specimen of French workmanship than that work-box which you enticed Mrs. Caxton into raffling for, last winter. Show your domino-box, my dear." I produced my treasure, and the shopman was liberal in his commendations.
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