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And one day he came down to the stream for water and they talked to each other . And Jacqueline told Cousin Jane Selden , and Cousin Jane Selden did not mind . She said she was sorry for the boy , and that she had given his father a piece of her mind , -- only he would n't take it . So Jacqueline used to see the boy often and often , for she always played under the apple tree by the stream , and he had a little time to rest every day at noon , and he would come down to the shade on his side of the stream , and Jacqueline told him all about Fontenoy . And he told Jacqueline what he was going to do when he was a man , and he asked her if she had ever read Cæsar , and she had not , and he told her all about it . And Jacqueline told him fairy tales , but he said they were not true , and that a harp could not sing by itself , nor a hen lay golden eggs , nor a beanstalk grow a mile . He said he did not like lies , -- which was n't very polite .