"Aren't you going to eat, too?" asked Marie with her mouth full.

"Bless you, yes," said Granny. "Every chance I get. You justwatch me!" She made a great show of taking a piece of the eel asshe spoke, but if any one had been watching carefully, they wouldhave her slyly put it back again into the pan, and the small childrennever knew that they ate her share and their own, too.