they are not so tame to you as they are to me?" said Fanny
laughing.

Norman had presented the reverse end of the magnet, which, of course,
sent them away from him. Again he tried to attract the fish and swan.

"Let me try again!" said Fanny, "if I look angrily at them they will go
away from me as they did from you." She also presented the reverse end
of the magnet, trying to frown, though she had some difficulty in
bringing her smiling countenance to do so. "Now I will look kindly at
them, and call them, and you will see that they will come to me;" and
she presented the right end of the magnet, when all the creatures came
up to the side of the dish near which she stood.

She now gave it back to Norman, and though he did not look as amiable as
she did, he burst into a laugh when he saw the creatures coming towards
him.

"I wish papa had brought me something like that," he said. "There is
some fun in it."

"You shall play with it as much as you like, Norman," said Fanny. "As
it is papa's present I cannot give it you, but you can amuse yourself
with it as much as if it was yours."

This promise for the moment put Norman into better humour, though he
still wished that he had the toy all to himself, while he left his
football neglected on the ground.

The rest of the party went to get ready for their excursion, but he
could not leave Fanny's toy. When she came back dressed, she found him
at the side-table, where the servant had placed the dish.

"I will give you my football for this, for I want it all to myself."

"I am sorry to hear you say that," answered Fanny; "I told you that I
could not give away papa's present, and the football is not suited to a
little girl like me."

"You are an ill-natured thing," exclaimed Norman, petulantly. "You will
never do what I want."

Fanny smiled, though she felt inclined to be vexed at this false
accusation.

"We must at all events put the things up now," she said, "for mamma has
sent me to tell you to come and get ready."

"I will not get ready, I do not want to go to the picnic," said Norman.

"But you must come," said Fanny taking hold of his arm, "mamma wishes
it."

Norman resisted, and, intending to seize the table, caught the dish
instead, and pulled it to the ground, splashing himself over and
breaking the dish.

"Oh what have you done?" cried Fanny.

"It was all your fault," said Norman. "If you had let me alone it would
not have happened."

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