She had three grandchildren, Isabel, , and Jamie, and as soon as she had taken off her and she sat down in Mamma's big rocking-chair, and called them to her.
"I have a present for each one of you in my brown bag," she said, "but before I give them to you, you must guess what they are."
"Oh, Grandma!" said Isabel and Jack and Jamie; and they watched her with wondering eyes as she opened the bag, and took out a .
"Jamie's present is in this bundle," said she. "It is red on the outside, and white on the inside and in the middle there is something brown."
"I believe I know what it is," said Jack.
"So do I," said Isabel; but Grandma would not let them guess.
"Jamie must guess it himself," she said. So Jamie guessed a ball, and a flower and a piece of candy and everything else he could think of; but he could not guess what was in the bundle till Grandma let him smell it. Then he knew.
"An apple, a red apple," he cried; and when he opened the bundle, there, sure enough, was a big, round apple. It was red on the outside, and white on the inside; and when he had eaten it he found in the middle, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven brown seeds.
The next bundle was for Jack. Grandma shook it up and down, and something inside.
"Marbles," guessed Jack; but Grandma shook her head.
"Listen to this," she said:—
" me, riddle me, what can it be,
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