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+<h1>The Project Gutenberg eBook, Bluff Crag, by Mrs. George Cupples</h1>
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+<p>Title: Bluff Crag</p>
+<p>       or, A Good Word Costs Nothing</p>
+<p>Author: Mrs. George Cupples</p>
+<p>Release Date: May 28, 2007  [eBook #21636]</p>
+<p>Language: English</p>
+<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p>
+<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BLUFF CRAG***</p>
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+<h4>E-text prepared by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Janet Blenkinship,<br />
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+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/imgcover.jpg" width="336" height="600"
+             alt="Cover" /><br /></div>
+<p><br /><br /></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img005.jpg" width="550" height="163"
+             alt="Chapter header" /><br />
+
+    </div>
+
+  <h1>BLUFF CRAG;</h1>
+
+  <h3>OR,</h3>
+
+  <h2>A GOOD WORD COSTS NOTHING.</h2>
+
+  <h3>A Tale for the Young.</h3>
+
+  <h4>By</h4>
+
+  <h2>Mrs. GEORGE CUPPLES,</h2>
+
+  <h4>AUTHOR OF "THE STORY OF OUR DOLL," "THE LITTLE CAPTAIN,"<br />
+  ETC., ETC.</h4>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+ <p class="center"><br />LONDON:<br />
+  T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW;<br />
+  EDINBURGH; AND NEW YORK.<br />
+
+  1872.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img004.jpg" width="395" height="600"
+             alt="A SCENE AT BLUFF CRAG." /><br />
+         <b>A SCENE AT BLUFF CRAG.</b>
+    </div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><br /><br /><a name="BLUFF_CRAG" id="BLUFF_CRAG"></a>BLUFF CRAG.<br /><br /></h2>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img007a.jpg" width="550" height="150"
+             alt="Chapter header" /><br />
+
+    </div>
+<p><br /></p>
+<div class="figleft"><img src="images/img007b.jpg" width="82" height="150" alt="Capital T" title="" /></div><p>his is such a capital night for a story, papa," said Robert Lincoln to
+his father, who had laid away his newspaper and seemed inclined to take
+an extra forty winks.</p>
+
+<p>"Indeed, Robert," said Mr. Lincoln, smiling, "I wonder if you would ever
+tire of hearing stories. I don't think I have one left; you and Lily
+have managed to exhaust my store."</p>
+
+<p>"O papa, please don't say that," cried Lily, who was putting away her
+school-books on their proper shelf at the end of the room. "I am sure,
+if you shut your eyes and think very hard for a few minutes, you will be
+sure to find one."</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p><p>"Very well, then, I shall try," said Mr. Lincoln; "perhaps there may be
+one among the cobwebs in my brain." Covering his face over with his
+newspaper, Mr. Lincoln lay back in his chair, and the children, drawing
+their stools closer to the fire, waited in patience to see the result of
+his meditation. It soon became evident, however, by his breathing, which
+became louder and longer, that Mr. Lincoln was falling asleep, and when
+at last he gave a loud snore, Robert could stand it no longer, and
+springing up, pulled the newspaper away, exclaiming,&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"O papa, you were actually going to sleep! You'll never find the story
+if you do!"</p>
+
+<p>"I think, after all, I <i>must</i> have dropped over," said Mr. Lincoln,
+rubbing his eyes; "but you are wrong in thinking I couldn't find a story
+in my sleep, for I was just in the middle of such a nice one, when you
+wakened me, and, lo and behold, I found it was a dream."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, do tell us what you dreamed, papa," said Lily. "Your dreams are so
+funny sometimes. I think I like them better than the real stories."</p>
+
+<p>"But it was only a bit of a dream. Bob there in his impatience knocked
+off the end, and I think it was going to be a very entertaining one."</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span></p><p>"I'll tell you how you can manage, papa," said Lily earnestly, "you can
+make an end to it as you go along: you do tell us such nice stories out
+of your head."</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Lincoln having come into the room with the two younger children, a
+chair was placed for her and baby beside Mr. Lincoln. Little Dick
+trotted off to Robert's knee, and the dog, Charley, hearing that a story
+was going to be told, laid himself down on the rug before the fire, at
+Lily's feet.</p>
+
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img009.jpg" width="427" height="450"
+             alt="WAITING FOR PAPA'S STORY." /><br />
+         <b>WAITING FOR PAPA'S STORY.</b>
+    </div>
+
+
+<p>"It's a very strange story, mamma," said Robert. "Papa fell asleep for
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span>two or three minutes, and dreamed the beginning of it. I am so sorry I
+wakened him; but he gave such a loud snore, I never thought he could be
+dreaming when he did that."</p>
+
+<p>"Ah, but you are wrong there," said Mr. Lincoln, laughing; "you will
+hear the reason of the snore very soon. Well, then, to begin&mdash;but how
+can I begin? Lily likes stories to set out with 'Once upon a time;' and
+you, Master Bob, like me to mention the hero's name, and tell you how
+old he is, and describe him particularly. Now, in this case, I can do
+neither."</p>
+
+<p>"You will require to say, Once upon a time, when I was taking 'forty
+winks,'" said Mrs. Lincoln, laughing. "I cannot see how you are to
+relate this strange story without a beginning."</p>
+
+<p>"Neither can I," said Mr. Lincoln. "You know everything depends upon a
+good beginning. Therefore I think I had better go to sleep again, and
+perhaps I shall dream one."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, please, papa, don't; I am sure the one mamma suggested is
+first-rate," said Robert impatiently.</p>
+
+<p>"Very well, then, once upon a time I dreamed a dream&mdash;"</p>
+
+<p>"It's Joseph and his broders papa is going to tell us about," cried
+little Dick. "Oh, I like that."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Every one laughed, while Robert explained that this was papa's dream,
+not Joseph's; which set the little fellow's mind wandering away still
+more into the favourite narrative, and it was only after a whispered
+threat from Robert that he would be taken up to the nursery if he did
+not sit quiet and listen, that he consented to leave Joseph and his
+brethren alone for the present.</p>
+
+<p>"It's no use," said Mr. Lincoln, laughing, "somehow the dream has fled.
+I'll tell you what we shall do,&mdash;we shall ask mamma to tell one of her
+stories about when she was a little girl."</p>
+
+<p>"I should like to have heard the dream, papa," said Lily, "but if it has
+fled away it won't be brought back. I know I never can get mine to do it
+till perhaps just when I am not thinking about it, then there, it is
+quite distinctly."</p>
+
+<p>"Well, that will be the way mine may do," said Mr. Lincoln. "Come,
+mamma, we are waiting for yours. A good story-teller should begin
+without delay, and we all know what a capital one you are."</p>
+
+<p>"Very well, then," said Mrs. Lincoln. "You must know that when I was a
+little girl I had been ill, and your grandmamma sent me to live with her
+brother, my Uncle John, who was the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> rector of the neighbouring parish.
+Uncle John had no children, and his wife had died just a few weeks
+before I went to pay him this visit. He had been very fond of my aunt,
+and he was still very sad about her death; so that it would have been
+rather a dull life but for Dolly, the housekeeper. Every morning after
+breakfast Dolly had to go for potatoes to a small field at a little
+distance from the rectory, and she usually took me with her if the day
+was fine. I ran about so much chasing butterflies and birds, that when
+the basket was filled I was quite tired out, and very glad to be placed
+upon the wheel-barrow and be taken home in this manner by the
+good-natured Dolly.</p>
+
+<p>"And had you no little girl to play with, mamma?" asked Robert.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img013.jpg" width="414" height="550"
+             alt="COMING FROM THE POTATO-FIELD." /><br />
+         <b>COMING FROM THE POTATO-FIELD.</b>
+    </div>
+
+
+
+<p>"Not for some time," replied Mrs. Lincoln. "Every one knew how sad my
+uncle was, and did not intrude upon him; but I never wearied so long as
+I had Dolly beside me. She could not read herself, but she was very fond
+of hearing me read to her, and though I could not do it very well then,
+I managed to make out the stories. Then your grandmamma had taught me a
+number of hymns, and I used to repeat them, and sometimes to sing them,
+which pleased Dolly very<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> much. I think it was overhearing me singing
+one of the hymns that made Uncle John take<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> notice of me at last. He
+used to shut himself in his study, and I scarcely ever saw him from one
+week's end to the other; but one day as he was going up-stairs I had
+been singing, and he came into the parlour, and, taking me on his knee,
+asked me to sing the hymn over again. I was a little nervous at first,
+but grandmamma had always told me to do the best I could when asked to
+repeat or sing a hymn, and I did so now. I suppose the words of the hymn
+pleased him, for from that time he always had me to dine with him; and
+he had such a kind manner, that I soon recovered from my shyness, and
+used to sit on his knee and prattle away to him as if he had been your
+grandpapa, and I had known him all my life. It made Dolly so pleased,
+too, for she said her master was beginning to look quite like his old
+self; and she only hoped your grandmamma would allow me to stay ever so
+long with him.</p>
+
+<p>"One day Uncle John returned earlier than usual, and calling Dolly,
+said, 'Get Miss Lilian ready to go out. Mrs. Berkley wishes me to spend
+the afternoon there, and I think it will do the child good. I fear she
+has had but a dull time of it lately.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh, please don't say that, uncle!' I exclaimed.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> 'I would rather stay
+at home with Dolly;' for the thought of the grand Mrs. Berkley, who came
+into church with her powdered footman carrying her Bible behind her,
+frightened me.</p>
+
+<p>"'No, no, my child; you must go with me,' said Uncle John quietly. 'It
+isn't good for you to be so much alone. You will have a good romp with
+some young people who are staying with Mrs. Berkley at present.'</p>
+
+<p>"'But I shall be beside you, Uncle John, shall I not?' I asked, with
+trembling lip.</p>
+
+<p>"'Why! are you afraid, dear? Come, come, this will never do; what is
+there to make you afraid? I am quite sure you will be sorry to leave
+when the hour comes for returning here.'</p>
+
+<p>"Mrs. Berkley's house stood upon a rising ground having a beautiful view
+of the sea. The rectory was about a mile inland from it; but though I
+had been very anxious to go to the beach, Dolly had never been able to
+spare the time, and as for trusting Mary, the younger servant, to take
+me, that was quite out of the question.</p>
+
+<p>"'I wonder if you could walk to Mrs. Berkley's,' said Uncle John. 'If
+so, we could go by the field-path, and so have a fine view of the sea.
+Do you think she could manage it, Dolly?'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"'Oh yes, sir,' said Dolly, catching a glimpse of my delighted
+expression. 'Miss Lily has been wishing to take that walk ever since she
+came; for she has never seen the sea, she tells me.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Has never seen the sea!' said Uncle John, smiling, 'then there is a
+great treat in store for you; so come away, my child, and we shall have
+a quiet half-hour before going to Mrs. Berkley's.'</p>
+
+<p>"I don't think I shall ever forget that walk with Uncle John. Seeing
+that I was interested in the birds and the butterflies, he told me all
+sorts of stories about them&mdash;how the former built their nests, and how
+the latter was first a caterpillar before changing into a bright
+butterfly. Then he pointed out many curious things about the flowers I
+plucked on the way. He seemed to my mind to know about everything; and,
+in consequence, my respect increased for him more and more, and I
+somehow became a little afraid of him.</p>
+
+<p>"But when, from the top of the hill, we caught the first glimpse of the
+blue sea lying below, with the fishing-boats in the distance, I quite
+forgot I was beginning to be shy of Uncle John, and screamed aloud,
+clapping my hands delightedly. He was so good to me, too. Fearing that
+in my rapture I might lose my footing and slip down the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> face of the
+rocks, Uncle John took me by the hand, and holding me fast, let me gaze
+upon the scene without interruption.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img017.jpg" width="424" height="550"
+             alt="THE FIRST WALK BY THE SEA-SIDE." /><br />
+         <b>THE FIRST WALK BY THE SEA-SIDE.</b>
+    </div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"'Now we must go, dear,' said Uncle John. 'Strange, that of all the
+works of creation none make such a wonderful impression as the first
+sight one gets of the sea.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Do you ever walk this way, uncle?' I inquired, as we turned into
+another path that led to Mrs. Berkley's mansion.</p>
+
+<p>"'Sometimes; indeed, it is a favourite walk of mine,' he replied. 'I
+like to come and sit just at that point where you stood. Your aunt used
+to be very fond of that walk also.'</p>
+
+<p>"'It will be such a nice place to see her in the clouds,' I said, but a
+little timidly, for this was the first time he had ever mentioned her
+name, and he had sighed heavily when he did so.</p>
+
+<p>"'Why, what do you mean, Lily?' he asked abruptly, and, as I fancied, a
+little sternly.</p>
+
+<p>"'When my sister Alice died, uncle, I was so sad and lonely without
+her,' I replied. 'Mamma was so busy nursing my brother William, that I
+had to amuse myself the best way I could; and so I used to sit by the
+window gazing up into the sky; and when the clouds came sailing past, I
+used to fancy I saw sister Alice in the very white ones. Nurse told me
+she is now clothed in white, and I knew Alice would weary to see me too;
+and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> I used to think God, who is so good and kind, would perhaps let her
+hide in the white clouds.'</p>
+
+<p>"Uncle John drew me closer to him, and instead of reproving me for my
+fancy, he kissed me, as he said, 'Poor child, poor little town-bred
+child, if you had had flowers, and birds, and butterflies to chase, it
+would have been better for you. I think we shall have to write and ask
+mamma to send us Willie here also.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh, that would be so nice!' I exclaimed. 'Willie would enjoy it so
+much! But see, uncle, there are some children with a donkey coming this
+way.'</p>
+
+<p>"'These are some of the young people I told you were living with Mrs.
+Berkley.&mdash;Hollo!' cried uncle, signalling to the children, who came
+running down the path as fast as they could the moment they heard the
+rector's voice. There was a little girl on the donkey's back, and two
+boys by the side of it, with a stable-lad to see that she did not tumble
+off.</p>
+
+<p>"'We were so glad when you called, sir,' said the oldest boy. 'Aunt
+Berkley said we might go and meet you, but we thought you would come by
+the highway.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Yes; but this little niece of mine had never<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> seen the sea, and I
+wanted to let her have her first view from the Bluff Crag.'</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img020.jpg" width="386" height="450"
+             alt="VEA ON HER DONKEY." /><br />
+         <b>VEA ON HER DONKEY.</b>
+    </div>
+
+
+
+<p>"'Then you have never been down to the beach?' said the little girl. 'We
+must get aunt to allow us to go there after dinner. It is such a
+delightful walk;&mdash;isn't it, sir? And you needn't be afraid to trust her
+with us, for we take Natilie when we go, and she is so careful.'</p>
+
+<p>"'And who is Natilie?' inquired Uncle John, lifting the little girl from
+the donkey at her request.</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh, Natilie is our French maid, and she is so nice; even the boys like
+Natilie.&mdash;But what is<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> your name, please?' she continued, turning to me.
+'Mine is Vivian Berkley, but the boys and all my friends call me Vea.'</p>
+
+<p>"'My name is Lilian, but I am called Lily at home&mdash;Lily Ashton,' I
+replied.</p>
+
+<p>"'Then I shall call you Lily too, may I not?' she said, looking up into
+my face with a kindly smile, and taking my hand, while her beautiful
+blue eyes sparkled. 'I am so glad you have come, dear Lily,' she
+continued. 'I do want a companion like you so much!'</p>
+
+<p>"'Do you find the boys unsocial, then, Miss Vea?' inquired Uncle John.</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh no, sir,' she replied; 'but they are boys, and you know girls are
+not allowed to do exactly what they do, so I am often alone.'</p>
+
+<p>"'And what do you do when you are alone?' said Uncle John, evidently
+amused with the precise though sweet tone of voice of little Vea.</p>
+
+<p>"'I play with my doll Edith, and I read my story-books, and I talk to
+Natilie. Do you know, sir,' she said, letting my hand loose and taking
+my uncle's as we mounted up the steep slope to the road above, while the
+donkey was led round by another way, followed by the boys, 'poor
+Natilie, when she came to stay with us, could not<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> speak a word of
+English, and she was so sad. And the boys used to laugh at her, and so
+did I sometimes, till Aunt Mary, in whose house we were living, told us
+that if we only knew poor Natilie's sad story we would be so sorry for
+her, that, instead of laughing, we would be apt to cry.'</p>
+
+<p>"'And what was the story?' inquired the rector.</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh,' said Vea, laughing, 'Aunt Mary was so cunning about it, she
+wouldn't tell us a word, but said we must learn our French very fast,
+and that then Natilie would tell it for herself; and as Aunt Mary said
+it was far more interesting than any we could read in our story-books,
+we did try to understand what she said to us very hard indeed. But we
+haven't heard the story yet; only we never laugh at Natilie now, for we
+have made out little bits of it, and we know the chief reason why she is
+sad is this: her husband is a very bad man, and he ran away and left
+her, and carried off her two little children, and she cannot find
+them.&mdash;But will you please walk into the garden, sir?' she continued,
+opening a side gate. 'Aunt said we might show you the new rustic table
+as we came along.'</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img023.jpg" width="373" height="550"
+             alt="THE NEW RUSTIC TABLE." /><br />
+         <b>THE NEW RUSTIC TABLE.</b>
+    </div>
+
+
+<p>"Patrick, the eldest boy, who had run on before,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> joined us just as we
+came up to the arbour, where a neat round table stood, having curious
+feet made out of the rough branches of a tree; the top had<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> been
+polished, and painted with varnish, and looked very splendid indeed. But
+the quick eyes of Vea soon detected an ugly scar on the bright surface,
+as if some boy had been attempting to cut out a letter upon it.</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh dear, who has done this?' cried little Vea, while Patrick turned
+away with blushing face. 'Patrick, this is a wicked action; do you know
+anything about it? Now be careful; think well before you answer.'</p>
+
+<p>"Uncle John could scarcely keep from smiling at the way Vea spoke, and
+the anxious manner shown towards her brother. 'O Patrick,' she
+exclaimed, 'if you did this, it is very wicked; you must go and tell
+aunt about it at once.'</p>
+
+<p>"Instead of answering, however, Patrick set off at a gallop, and
+disappeared behind some bushes, leaving Vea standing looking after him
+with glistening eyes. 'What is to be done now?' she said, as if to
+herself; 'it is so difficult to get Patrick to own a fault, and I fear
+he will lead Alfred into more mischief. O mamma, mamma, I wish you had
+never left us! I do try to keep the boys right, but they are so wild
+sometimes.'</p>
+
+<p>"'You cannot do more than your best, my child,' said my uncle, laying
+his hand tenderly<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> on her bowed head. 'Would you like me to speak to
+your aunt for Patrick?'</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh no, sir, thank you very kindly,' she said, drying her eyes hastily;
+'Patrick must confess the fault himself, if he has done it. Aunt Berkley
+is so good-natured, that I am sure she would excuse him if you asked;
+but that would not be safe for Patrick,&mdash;he forgets so soon, and will be
+at some other mischief directly. Aunt Mary warned me about this very
+sort of thing.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Well, I am sure he ought to be a good boy, having such a kind, good
+little sister to look after him.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Please, sir, don't say that,' said Vea, the tears coming to her eyes
+again; 'I don't deserve such praise; for the reason why Aunt Mary told
+me of Patrick's faults was, she wished to point out my own, and she
+knows I am so lazy, and don't like to check the boys, lest they should
+call me "Goody;" but Aunt Mary said I ought to look after them,&mdash;that a
+good word costs nothing; at anyrate, if I had only to bear being called
+a harmless name, it was but a very small cross, compared to the evil I
+might cause by allowing the boys to play mischievous tricks.'</p>
+
+<p>"'That is right, my dear child,' said Uncle<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> John; 'we must do our duty,
+however hard it may be; and though a good word in one sense costs
+nothing, still we all know it sometimes costs a good deal, and is a
+difficult matter, to a great many people.'</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img026.jpg" width="450" height="399"
+             alt="ON BOARD THE STEAMER." /><br />
+         <b>ON BOARD THE STEAMER.</b>
+    </div>
+
+
+
+<p>"To Vea's astonishment, instead of her Aunt Berkley letting her brother
+off easily, when she found out about the mischief done to the table, she
+was so very angry that she would not allow him to join the party that
+afternoon in the excursion in the steamer. While she pointed out the
+various objects of interest to Vea and myself, seeing that poor Vea was
+depressed in spirits&mdash;her kind heart suffering extremely when her
+brothers<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> fell into error&mdash;Aunt Berkley whispered, 'You are not vexed
+with me, dear child, for punishing Patrick? If he had owned the fault, I
+would have forgiven him; but he was so stubborn, and would not even
+speak when spoken to. Alfred is so different.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh no,' said Vea quickly; 'I am only sorry that he was so naughty and
+required the punishment;' but, as if afraid she was condemning her
+brother, she added, 'Patrick has a warm, affectionate nature, aunt; if
+he could only get over his love of mischief he would be a dear, good
+boy.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Well, my dear, we must try to help him to be good. Boys will be boys,
+however; though it is necessary to punish them sometimes, else they
+might get into serious disgrace. We must have another excursion soon,
+and perhaps the thought of it will keep Patrick from being naughty.'</p>
+
+<p>"On reaching home that afternoon they found the school-room empty; and
+though Patrick had been told he was to remain in the house till his aunt
+returned, he was nowhere to be found. Alfred sought for him in all their
+favourite haunts about the out-houses and garden, but without success.
+'I'll tell you where he will be, Vea,' said Alfred, on his return to the
+school-room<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> from a last hunt in the orchard,&mdash;'he has gone to the cave
+at the Bluff Crag.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh, surely not,' said Vea in distress. 'Aunt told us distinctly we
+were never to go there without leave from her, and then only with some
+person who knows the coast well. What makes you fancy such a thing,
+Alfred?'</p>
+
+<p>"'Because, I remember now, he muttered to himself about giving aunt
+something to be angry for; and he has often been wanting me to go
+there.'</p>
+
+<p>"'I hope this is not the case, Alfred,' said Vea. 'But perhaps aunt
+would allow us to go down to the beach with Natilie, to look for him.'</p>
+
+<p>"'I daresay she will,' said Alfred; 'but if you do ask her, don't
+mention Patrick's name; you needn't be getting him always into a scrape
+by your tale-telling.'</p>
+
+<p>"'O Alfred, how cruel you are,' said Vea, 'when you know I am always
+trying to get you boys out of scrapes!' and the tears rose to her eyes.</p>
+
+<p>"'Very well, then, I won't,' said Alfred; 'you are a dear, good little
+sister, and we do bother you tremendously sometimes. Stay you here, and
+I will ask aunt to let us go to the beach.'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"Alfred soon returned, stating that his aunt had said Yes at once to his
+request; 'But,' he added, laughing, 'I think she did not know very well
+what she was saying, she was so busy talking to the rector.'</p>
+
+<p>"Natilie was quite willing to accompany us, and very soon we were down
+on the beach; but whichever way we looked we could not see any trace of
+the missing Patrick. All of a sudden Alfred gave a shout, and pointed in
+the direction of some great high rocks upon which stood a light-house.</p>
+
+<p>"'See, Vea, there is Wild Dick running upon the rocks!' cried Alfred
+excitedly.</p>
+
+<p>"'Where?' said Vea, standing on tip-toe, and straining her head forward
+towards the place Alfred was pointing out.</p>
+
+<p>"'I see von boy,' said Natilie, in her strange broken English. 'Him not
+be Master Patrick. I know him now for that same wicked boy Mrs. Berkley
+forbid you speak to.'</p>
+
+<p>"'But I tell you Patrick is with him,' said Alfred, showing he knew more
+about his brother's movements than he had owned at first. 'Dick offered
+to help him to find some sea-birds' eggs, and they have gone off to get
+them now.'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"At this moment the boy called Dick observed us, and as soon as he did
+so he began to make signs in a most excited manner to us to hasten.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img030.jpg" width="500" height="360"
+             alt="WILD DICK." /><br />
+         <b>WILD DICK.</b>
+    </div>
+
+
+
+<p>"'There has been some accident to Master Patrick, I much fear,' said
+Natilie, beginning to run. 'Oh, when will that boy be good?'</p>
+
+<p>"On coming closer to Dick, it soon became evident that an accident had
+really happened; and in a few moments more they learned that the
+unfortunate Patrick, in climbing the rocks, had lost his footing, and
+had fallen down from a considerable height.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"'I think he's broken his leg, miss,' said Dick to Vea. 'And how he is
+to be taken out of that 'ere hole he has fallen into, is what I'd like
+very much to know.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Do show us where he is, Dick,' said Vea. 'Oh, be quick; he may die if
+his leg is not attended to at once!'</p>
+
+<p>"It was no easy matter to scramble over the stony beach to the place
+where Patrick was lying; and rather a pitiable sight it was to see him
+with his leg doubled under him, and with a face so very pale that it was
+no wonder Vea cried out with pure horror, for she evidently thought he
+was going to faint, or die altogether, perhaps.</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh, what shall we do?' cried Vea. 'How are we to get him up? and how
+are we to get him carried home?'</p>
+
+<p>"'I would not have you distress yourself so, Miss Vea,' said Natilie. 'I
+think I can get him out of this difficulty, with very little patience,
+if we could get him carried home.'</p>
+
+<p>"'If you get him out of the hole he has fallen into,' said Dick, 'I will
+manage the rest.'</p>
+
+<p>"'But how can you carry him over such a rough beach?' asked Alfred.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"'I will get the boat from my grandfather,' replied Dick, 'and we can
+row him round to the harbour, where the men can help us up to the house
+with him.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh yes, that will be the plan,' said Vea. 'Do run, like a good boy,
+and get the boat; I am sure your grandfather will be very glad to lend
+it to us, for Patrick was always a favourite with him.'</p>
+
+<p>"'And I know somebody who is a greater favourite than even Master
+Patrick,' replied Dick, smiling, before he hurried away towards his
+grandfather's house.</p>
+
+<p>"Very soon, though it seemed a long time to Vea, Dick was plainly seen
+shoving out the boat from the shore, with the assistance of two boys,
+who then jumped in and rowed it round as close to where Patrick lay as
+they possibly could.</p>
+
+<p>"Natilie had by this time managed to get Patrick up out of the sort of
+hole he had fallen into, and by our united efforts we at last succeeded
+in getting him into the boat, where we all helped to support him, as he
+had fainted away again. It was considered advisable to row to Dick's
+grandfather's house for the present; and accordingly the boat was
+steered for a cove, up which the tide carried us.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img033.jpg" width="550" height="524"
+             alt="FETCHING THE BOAT." /><br />
+         <b>FETCHING THE BOAT.</b>
+    </div>
+
+
+<p>"The hut where Dick's grandfather lived was a very poor one, built
+mostly of turf, and thatched with rough bent or sea-grass. The
+chimney-can was made with an old barrel, which stood the blast and
+served better than an ordinary one would have done at such a stormy part
+of the coast. One or two fishing-boats lay at the rough pier or jetty
+old Dick had constructed, the men<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> belonging to which were earnestly
+engaged preparing their nets for going to sea that evening; while a
+number of boys were busy sailing miniature boats in a small pool left by
+the last tide. No sooner, however, did they hear the shouts of their
+companions in our boat, than they left their sport, and hurried down to
+lend a hand in pulling in the boat to a place of security.</p>
+
+<p>"'Has grandfather come back from the town, Jack?' cried Dick to a
+rough-looking boy, the tallest of them all, and who had carried his
+model boat in his arms, instead of leaving it as the others had done
+theirs.</p>
+
+<p>"'No, he ha'n't,' replied Jack; 'and, what's more, it's likely he won't
+be for some time either; for I hears Tom Brown saying to Tim that my
+father would be late to-night, and I knows your grandfather is to keep
+him company.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Then what's to be done now, miss?' said Dick. 'I had been thinking
+grandfather, who knows all about sores, seeing as he was boatswain's
+mate aboard a man-o'-war, might have been able to put young master's leg
+to rights.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh no, Dick, that would never do,' said Vea; 'we must get him ashore
+and laid in your grandfather's bed, and somebody had better run up to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span>
+tell aunt of the accident, and get her to send for the doctor at once.'</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img035.jpg" width="465" height="600"
+             alt="WILD DICK'S HOME." /><br />
+         <b>WILD DICK'S HOME.</b>
+    </div>
+
+
+<p>"While Natilie prepared the bed in the old<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> fisherman's hut, Patrick was
+being carried by the men who had been summoned from the boats. The poor
+boy was still in a fainting state, and it was not till after he had been
+laid on the bed that he opened his eyes and showed signs of
+consciousness. 'Oh, where am I?' he uttered; but even this exertion was
+too much for him, and he became insensible once more.</p>
+
+<p>"'It's a bad break, this,' said one of the men to his fellow; 'I
+shouldn't wonder, now, if he had to lose his leg altogether!'</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh, please don't speak of it,' said Vea, her face becoming ghastly
+pale. 'Do look out again, Lily dear, and see if Alfred is coming with
+the doctor.'</p>
+
+<p>"Yes; there he was at last, running at a break-neck speed down the steep
+and rocky bank to the beach, while the doctor was distinctly seen high
+overhead on the regular path, coming very quickly too. Indeed, though he
+had taken the longest road, and did not seem to hasten like Alfred, he
+was only a few minutes behind him, and showed no signs of heat and
+over-exertion.</p>
+
+<p>"'Heyday, this is a pretty business,' said Dr. Blyth cheerily. 'What's
+this you've been about, Miss Vea? breaking your brother's leg, eh?' All<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span>
+this time he had been unrolling a case of formidable-looking
+instruments, taking off his coat, and getting fresh water brought, and
+bandages prepared with the help of Natilie. When these were ready, he
+turned to look at his patient, and bidding every one leave the hut but
+the two fishermen and Natilie, he shut the door against them himself,
+and secured it firmly.</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh, please, doctor, let me stay,' Vea had said pitifully. 'I'm sure
+Patrick would like me to stay.'</p>
+
+<p>"'I'm sure of that too,' said the doctor kindly; 'but you shall have
+plenty of nursing by-and-by: don't be afraid, I mean to engage you as my
+chief assistant. Meanwhile, my dear, trust me for knowing what is best
+for you and for your brother, and take yourself off to the beach there.
+Come, Miss Lily,' he continued, turning to me, 'you take your friend
+down to the beach, and keep her there till I call you. Remember, you are
+not to leave the rock there till I call you, Miss Vea.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh dear, dear, it does seem hard,' said Vea, when we were seated under
+the rook, 'to leave Patrick in the hands of strangers. And yet, Dr.
+Blyth is such a good, kind man, I'm sure he won't give him unnecessary
+pain.'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"'Would you like me to read a story to you, dear Vea?' I inquired,
+opening a book I had brought out with me. 'It might help to pass the
+time away.'</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img038.jpg" width="512" height="550"
+             alt="DOWN ON THE BEACH." /><br />
+         <b>DOWN ON THE BEACH.</b>
+    </div>
+
+
+
+<p>"'Thank you, Lily,' said Vea; 'but I feel as if I couldn't listen to
+anything; and yet, if I sit here I shall go mad with the suspense.'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"'Come, then, take a walk along the beach,' I replied; 'we will be
+within reach of the doctor's voice quite as well. I know he will take
+some time to set the leg; for when our stable-boy, Reuben, got his leg
+broken, the doctor took a long time to set it.'</p>
+
+<p>"'And did Reuben's leg get well again&mdash;quite well, I mean?' inquired Vea
+earnestly; 'was he able to walk with it as he did before?'</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh yes; he could use it quite as well as before,' I replied. 'Indeed,
+papa used to say Reuben was quicker at going a message after the
+accident than before.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh, I am so glad to hear that,' said Vea, sighing. 'I do hope it will
+be the same with Patrick. Poor Patrick! Aunt Mary has so often said he
+would need to get some severe lessons to make him think. She was always
+telling him that he would find out the path of transgressors is hard,
+instead of pleasant, as he seemed to fancy. I don't think there is such
+a miserable girl as I am in the world?' And here Vea began to cry.</p>
+
+<p>"After comforting her as well as I could, she was at last prevailed upon
+to take a short walk along the beach in the direction where some
+chil<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span>dren were playing. As we walked along I told her that my mother
+often said, when we fancied ourselves ill-used and very unhappy, if we
+looked about us we would generally find that there was somebody even
+more miserable than we were ourselves. By this time we had come up to
+the children, and found three of them in earnest conversation. We were
+not long in discovering that the youngest was in evident distress, and
+her companions were listening to her words with deep interest.</p>
+
+<p>"'I wouldn't stand it, if I were you, Polly,' said the eldest girl, who
+was standing in front of the group.</p>
+
+<p>"'But what can I do, Martha?' replied the girl, rocking herself to and
+fro, and weeping afresh.</p>
+
+<p>"'Do? I would run away,' replied the other. 'I would go into service, or
+beg my bread from door to door, rather than bear what you have to bear.'</p>
+
+<p>"'But don't you think you had better speak to teacher, Polly?' said the
+other girl softly, looking from under her sun-bonnet with great
+dreamy-looking blue eyes; 'I wouldn't do anything rash before speaking
+to teacher. You re<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span>member what she said to us last Sunday, that all our
+trials were sent from our Father in heaven.'</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img041.jpg" width="500" height="451"
+             alt="POOR POLLY." /><br />
+         <b>POOR POLLY.</b>
+    </div>
+
+
+
+<p>"'Yes, Rachel, I heard her say that,' replied Polly; 'and I try to think
+about it; but oh! my step-mother would make anybody angry; and then my
+temper rises, and I speak out, and then I am beaten. I wouldn't mind
+that, however, if she would only beat me; but when I see her raise her
+hand to strike little Willie, who never<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span> was angry in his life, but was
+always gentle and good&mdash;always, always.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Is there anything I can do for you, little girl?' said Vea, stepping
+forward, forgetting for the time her own trouble while witnessing the
+distress of another. 'Why does your companion want you to run away?'</p>
+
+<p>"'It's to escape from her step-mother, miss,' replied the girl called
+Martha. 'She uses her shameful, she do, and all for what? Because
+Polly's father made so much of her afore he was lost.'</p>
+
+<p>"'And was your father lost at sea, Polly? Oh, how dreadful!' said Vea,
+seating herself on the stones beside her. 'And have you no mother of
+your own?'</p>
+
+<p>"'No, miss; mother died when Willie was a year old,' said Polly.</p>
+
+<p>"'And do you remember her quite well?' asked Vea.</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh yes, quite well, miss. It was a terrible night that, just before
+she died. Father was away to the town for some tackle, and I was left
+all alone with her and Willie. She hadn't been very well for some weeks,
+but nobody thought she was going to die. Even the very doctor had<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span> said
+that morning so cheerily to father she would weather through. She had
+been lying sleeping with Willie in her arms, but a sudden squall shook
+the door, and made it and the window-frame rattle, and that startled
+her, and she wakened. Then I couldn't help seeing she was much worse;
+and I tried to keep from crying, for she seemed wild-like, and the
+doctor had said she was to be kept quiet. Then she looked up in a
+moment, and said, "Polly, promise me you'll look after Willie when I
+die. Never let any harm come to Willie, mind that; and take care of
+father, but look well after Willie." She never spoke again, not even to
+father, who came in soon after, and cried like a baby over her. She just
+opened her eyes once, and looked at him with a smile, and tried to push
+Willie over to him, and then she died. How good father was to us then!
+He used to take Willie down to the beach with him while I made the house
+tidy and got the dinner; and he made Willie a fine boat, and dug out a
+place for him to sail it in; and oh! but we were happy then!'</p>
+
+<p>"'I don't think your father would have been lost if it hadn't been that
+step-mother of yours,' said Martha angrily. 'I can't a-bear her, I
+can't.'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"'Oh, don't say that, Martha. It was God who took father,' said Polly,
+in a low whisper. 'Didn't you hear the rector saying it was God's will
+to send the storm that night?'</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img044.jpg" width="430" height="600"
+             alt="LITTLE WILLIE AND HIS FATHER." /><br />
+         <b>LITTLE WILLIE AND HIS FATHER.</b>
+    </div>
+
+
+
+<p>"'Yes,' said Martha; but if your step-mother had only bade your father
+stay at home, as all the other men did, he never would have been lost.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span>
+Didn't old Joe Gafler warn them there was a squall a-coming! but no, she
+is so grasping, she wanted the money for the fish, and she let him go.
+It was a shame!'</p>
+
+<p>"'But father often says the boat may be found yet,' said Rachel; 'and
+you know even old Dick says the thing is likely.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Well, if so be's it should happen that Will Dampier comes to land
+again, I hope he'll know how his Polly has been treated when he was
+away,' said Martha.</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh, I wouldn't mind for myself not one bit,' said Polly. 'It's when
+she strikes Willie that I can't bear it; and I somehow think Willie is
+not so well this last week.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Then you mustn't think of running away, Polly,' said Vea. 'Wasn't that
+what Martha was urging you to do? If you went away, who would take care
+of Willie? Do you know, I have a brother I am very anxious about too,
+Polly?' said Vea. 'He is lying in Dick's cottage, with his leg broken,
+and the doctor is setting it while we are waiting out here.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh, I am very sorry indeed, miss,' said Polly, forgetting her own
+troubles in turn. 'Is that the young gentleman who is living with Mrs.
+Berkley?'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"'Yes, Polly,' said Vea. 'Mrs. Berkley is my aunt.'</p>
+
+<p>"'He's a very kind young gentleman, miss. Is there anything I could do
+for him, miss? I should like to do something so much, for he helped me
+more than once.'</p>
+
+<p>"Vea naturally looked a little surprised, for Patrick was so often in
+trouble, that it was rather astonishing to hear any one praising him.</p>
+
+<p>"'I don't think it could be my brother Patrick,' said Vea.</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh yes, miss, that was his name,' said Polly. 'He told me his name was
+Patrick.'</p>
+
+<p>"'And what did Patrick do for you?' said Vea, looking much pleased.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img047.jpg" width="454" height="500"
+             alt="THE ANCHOR." /><br />
+         <b>THE ANCHOR.</b>
+    </div>
+
+
+
+<p>"'I was playing with Willie one day at the harbour, and young Dick was
+showing me a great anchor some of the men had left on shore for a new
+boat they were going to build, when my step-mother called from the
+cottage door, and bade me take the ropes and carry home the drift-wood
+she had been gathering all the morning. Dick said as how he was sorry he
+couldn't go to help me, as he had to go out in his grandfather's boat
+that afternoon; and so, after leaving Willie beside old Dick, I took the
+ropes and went down on the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span> beach. My step-mother had called after me I
+was to drag them in three bundles, but they were so heavy that I had to
+separate the first one into two; and for doing this she beat me. I was
+going back to the next one, crying a good deal, for I was wishing I
+could go to my own mother and to father, when a boy jumped up from
+behind a stone, and asked me why I was crying; and so<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span> I told him. And
+when he heard it, he called my step-mother some hard names; and then
+says he, "Are you the little girl young Dick helps when he has any spare
+time?" And when I answered "Yes," he says, "Well, then, give me the
+ropes and I'll help you, for Dick is away to-day." I couldn't help
+saying that dragging drift-wood wasn't fit work for a gentleman; but he
+just laughed, and said there were lots of people would be glad to know
+Patrick Berkley was so usefully employed.'</p>
+
+<p>"'And did he drag the wood for you?' said Vea, the tears standing in her
+eyes.</p>
+
+<p>"'That he did, miss. And whenever he sees me carrying a heavy load along
+the beach, he just slips up to me, and, without saying a word, takes it
+out of my hand. And then if he sees any of the boys frightening me, he
+won't let them. I was so sorry, miss, for the cut he got on his eye;
+that was from wild Joe throwing a stone at him when he was carrying my
+basket for me round the Bluff Crag.'</p>
+
+<p>"'You have no idea how happy you have made me, Polly,' said Vea. 'Aunt
+Mary always says there is a great deal of good in Patrick, only his love
+of mischief sometimes chokes the good seed.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span> It is very strange he never
+lets us see him doing a kind or a generous action.'</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img049.jpg" width="358" height="450"
+             alt="BY THE BEACH." /><br />
+         <b>BY THE BEACH.</b>
+    </div>
+
+
+
+<p>"At this moment Natilie opened the cottage door and called to her young
+mistress to come up. I waited by the beach, and taking off my shoes and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span>
+stockings, waded into the cool water. The girls were much amused at my
+delight, and I may say terror also, as, looking down into the clear blue
+water, I saw various small fishes darting in and out among the stones;
+and even Polly forgot her angry step-mother at home, and screamed with
+laughter at my sudden fright when a small crab seized hold of my great
+toe, and hung tenaciously to it, even when I was far up on the sandy
+beach.</p>
+
+<p>"Then Natilie came and called to me to come up also; and there I found
+Patrick lying very quiet and still on the bed, and Vea sitting by the
+side of it holding his hand. It was arranged that I should return to the
+house with Natilie and Alfred, while Vea remained with her brother till
+Natilie returned; but just as we were setting out, my Uncle John came
+down to see after the patient, and I was told I might amuse myself for
+an hour outside till the maid returned with the articles required by the
+doctor. I would have liked to have stayed with Vea, but both the doctor
+and my uncle thought that as the cottage was so small, the fewer there
+were in it the better for Patrick.</p>
+
+<p>"'I would like to get home,' said poor Patrick in a faint voice.
+'Couldn't I be carried home, sir?' he pleaded, turning to the doctor.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img051.jpg" width="410" height="600"
+             alt="DOWN AT THE COVE." /><br />
+         <b>DOWN AT THE COVE.</b>
+    </div>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"'Not for some days, my boy,' replied the doctor kindly. 'If you lie
+very still, and attend to orders, we shall see what can be done for you
+then.'</p>
+
+<p>"But when the doctor had gone, Vea came slipping out, and bidding me
+follow her, went round to where some boats lay moored. A ladder was
+placed against the side of one of these, and up this Vea mounted before
+I knew what she was going to do. 'I feel sure,' she said, looking over
+the side of the boat to me, as I stood on the beach below, 'if we could
+only get Patrick hoisted up here, we might get him taken home quite
+safely.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Ah, but I don't think the doctor will allow you to do that,' I
+replied; 'I fear he must remain here for some weeks.'</p>
+
+<p>"'He seems very anxious to get home, poor boy. I cannot make it out,'
+said Vea. 'He says he will tell me the reason once he finds himself in
+his own bed at Aunt Berkley's. I wonder who this boat belongs to.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Polly said it belonged to Martha's father,' I replied; 'she told me so
+just before they left me to go home.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Polly, I hope, has quite made up her mind not to run away,' said Vea.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"'Oh yes, I think she has given up that idea; indeed, I heard her say to
+Rachel she would try to bear it a little longer.'</p>
+
+<p>"'There is Dick returned already,' said Vea; and she scrambled out of
+the boat, and ran down to the beach to meet Dick, who was coming from
+the doctor's house with a basket containing medicines for the sick boy.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img053.jpg" width="500" height="252"
+             alt="DICK RETURNING WITH THE MEDICINE." /><br />
+         <b>DICK RETURNING WITH THE MEDICINE.</b>
+    </div>
+
+
+
+<p>"'Oh, you are a good boy, Dick,' said Vea. 'How fast you must have
+gone!'</p>
+
+<p>"'Well, yes, miss, I did go fast,' said Dick, pleased with Vea's speech
+apparently. 'I went by the beach, the tide being out, and it is nigher
+that way by a good mile. I would go faster than most folks for the young
+master.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Why, has Patrick been kind to you too, Dick!' said Vea, in much
+surprise.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"'That he has, miss,' said Dick gratefully. 'When I lost grandfather's
+knife, didn't he buy me a new one with the new half-crown his aunt gave
+him to spend at the fair! And didn't he let grandfather think he had
+broken the glass in the window, when all the time it was me, and nobody
+else! And hasn't he often and often brought me a bit of his own dinner
+tied up in his handkerchief, or a pie he would find lying handy in the
+pantry, when he knowed I'd had nothing for my dinner that day at all!'</p>
+
+<p>"Vea said nothing, but she evidently thought her brother was a very
+curious boy, and that she had not understood him at all.</p>
+
+<p>"When Natilie had returned with the things required by the sick boy and
+his attendants, Uncle John and I set off home, he promising that we
+would return the next afternoon to inquire after Patrick. The sun was
+just shedding its last rays of golden light over the sea, lighting it up
+with a strange lurid light, which, with the stillness of the scene, and
+the great rocks on the coast, left a strange impression on my mind.</p>
+
+<p>"'And you say you have enjoyed yourself, my dear!' said Uncle John,
+after we had walked on in silence for some time.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img055.jpg" width="424" height="550"
+             alt="GOING HOME WITH UNCLE JOHN." /><br />
+         <b>GOING HOME WITH UNCLE JOHN.</b>
+    </div>
+
+
+<p>"'Oh, very much indeed, uncle,' I replied. 'I like Vea so much, and
+Alfred is such a funny boy. Isn't it a pity that Patrick is so fond of
+mischief, when he seems to have such a kind heart?'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"'I've always liked that boy Patrick,' said my uncle; 'and, what is
+more,' he continued, as if to himself, 'I never liked Alfred.'</p>
+
+<p>"'That is very strange, uncle,' I replied; 'he is such a polite boy, and
+so quiet in the drawing-room. He is so funny too; he nearly set me off
+laughing at the funny faces he made behind his aunt's back; and he can
+speak just like her, in that queer low drawling tone.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Exactly,' said my uncle; 'that is the very thing I dislike about him.
+He has the power of mimicry, and is also able to keep a grave face when
+others are forced to laugh&mdash;a thing poor Patrick is not able to do, and
+the consequence is he gets into sad disgrace for laughing, and, to save
+his brother, won't tell what he is laughing at. Alfred is a mean boy,
+for twice I have seen him allow his brother to be punished, when, by
+simply telling he was the cause of it, the punishment might have been
+avoided. Now, who do you think was the actual culprit who cut that nice
+table in the summer-house?'</p>
+
+<p>"'It must have been Patrick, uncle; he never denied it,' I replied.</p>
+
+<p>"'That is the strange thing, dear. Patrick is greatly to blame in this,
+that he will not tell upon<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span> his brother, but is so easy-minded, that,
+rather than exert himself to make his friends think well of him, he
+allows every one to suppose that he is the offender; and, as I said
+before, Alfred is so mean, that, knowing this, he plays the tricks and
+lets his brother take the blame. A tale-teller is to be despised; but a
+boy who is so lazy that he cannot say a good word for himself when his
+character is concerned, is almost as bad.'</p>
+
+<p>"'But how did you find all this out, uncle?' I inquired.</p>
+
+<p>"'Well, I overheard the two boys speaking about it in the shrubbery; and
+what struck me most was, even when Patrick had an opportunity to reprove
+his younger brother he did not do so, though a good word costs nothing,
+and might save his brother much misery in the end. I am half glad he has
+met with this accident; it will give him time to think.'</p>
+
+<p>"At this moment a boat sailed past, filled with gay company, who waved
+their handkerchiefs to us, and cheered most lustily. One little girl
+held up her doll, and made it wave its hat to Uncle John's polite bow,
+which made them all laugh very much.</p>
+
+<p>"Dolly was very glad to see me again, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span> said so kindly that she had
+never spent such a long, dull day, and that she hoped I would not go
+junketting in a hurry, else she would require to go with me herself.
+There was no time to tell her all the story of our visit to Mrs. Berkley
+that night, because a woman came in asking her to go down to the village
+to see a sick man who had wandered there that day, and had been found
+lying under a hedge by a field-worker. Then, as it was close to my
+bed-hour, and I was very tired, Dolly carried me off to my room at once,
+and when she had seen me safely in bed, went away. The next morning
+while at breakfast she told me the sick man was apparently a fisherman,
+but he was so weak he could not give an account of himself. Once or
+twice he had suddenly become uneasy in his sleep, and had moaned out a
+name some of the women thought was Polly, but so faintly, that they
+could not be sure even of that.</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh, it must be Polly's father come to life again,' I cried, starting
+up and knocking over my basin of milk upon the clean white table-cover.
+'Oh, do let me run and tell uncle about it, Dolly; he will know what
+ought to be done.'</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img060.jpg" width="400" height="398"
+             alt="OVERTAKEN BY THE STORM." /><br />
+         <b>OVERTAKEN BY THE STORM.</b>
+    </div>
+
+<p>"Uncle John did not like to be disturbed in the morning, but this was an
+extra case, and after<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span> Dolly had heard of the sufferings poor Polly had
+to endure from her cruel step-mother, she allowed me to go to the study
+door and tap gently. Uncle John listened very attentively to the story
+about us meeting the three little girls on the beach, and at once agreed
+to set out to inquire for the sick man; and proposed, if he was still
+too weak to answer questions, to go on to the Bluff Crag, and get one of
+the fishermen from there to come up to look at him. Fortunately, when my
+uncle arrived the sick man was much better, and though only able to
+speak a word at a time, understood all the questions that were put to
+him. It soon became evident that this was indeed Polly's long-lost
+father. When he was a little stronger he told how the boat that fearful
+night had drifted away along the coast, and how it at last was dashed up
+on the rocky beach, and how he had been thrown out into a sort of cave,
+where there was barely standing room when the tide was full, and how he
+had lived for days on the shell-fish that he found sticking to the side
+of the cave, or the eggs he found on the shelves of rock; and at last,
+when even this scanty supply failed him, and he was nearly mad from the
+want of water, how he had dashed him<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span>self into the sea, determined to be
+done with his misery. Then he told how, when he came to himself, he
+found he was lying in a cottage, with a woman bending over him, and a
+man sitting smoking by the fire, stirring some stuff in a pan. It seemed
+that this man was a collector of birds' eggs, and, knowing about this
+cave, he had come down, with the help of a great strong rope tied round
+his waist, to gather eggs. Great was his surprise when he saw the body
+of a man floating in the water; but he lost no time in seiz<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span>ing him by
+the belt, and, with the help of his comrades up at the top, brought him
+safely to land.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img061.jpg" width="387" height="600"
+             alt="RESCUED." /><br />
+         <b>RESCUED.</b>
+    </div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"You can understand how glad Polly was when, that same evening, Uncle
+John took me with him to tell her of her father's safety. I kept
+fancying all the way that when she heard the news she would dance and
+shriek with joy, and clap her hands; but, instead of that, she just sat
+quietly down on a stool by the fire. What a white face she had, and how
+her lips trembled! Even Uncle John was struck by her appearance, and
+must have been afraid the sudden news had been too much for her. 'Come,
+come, Polly, this will never do,' he said kindly; 'you must set about
+getting some clothes put up in a bundle, and come away back with me.
+Father is very impatient to see his little Polly, I can tell you!'</p>
+
+<p>"'Polly again! it's always Polly!" said her step-mother. 'I don't
+believe he cares a pin about me and my children so long as these two are
+all right.'</p>
+
+<p>"Uncle John spoke to her very sensibly, as I thought, telling her that
+her husband's children ought to be as dear to her as her own, for his
+sake, and that a jealous disposition often led to much misery; but I
+don't think it made much impression upon her: and I was very glad when
+Polly appeared ready to start, with her clothes<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span> and some for her father
+also, tied up in a little bundle.</p>
+
+<p>"Some days after, uncle kindly took me to spend the day with Vea. I was
+delighted to find that Patrick had been removed to Mrs. Berkley's, and
+had stood the journey very well. He had been carried on a stretcher by
+some of the fishermen; and they had borne him along so gently that
+Patrick declared he had never felt the least motion, and thought he had
+been lying on his bed all the time.</p>
+
+<p>"'I should like to get some flowers so much,' said Vea, after I had
+arrived. 'Patrick is so fond of flowers; but he likes the wild ones
+best. He says the hot-house ones smell oppressively, but the wild ones
+make him comfortable.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Then why can't we get him some?' I inquired.</p>
+
+<p>"'Aunt doesn't like us to go to the wood by ourselves; and Natilie is
+engaged to-day,' replied Vea.</p>
+
+<p>"'I'll tell you how we will manage it,' I replied, laughing. 'We will
+ask uncle to go with us.'</p>
+
+<p>"'But do you think he will go with us?' said Vea eagerly.</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh yes, I think he will&mdash;I am sure of it, almost,' I said; 'because I
+heard your aunt<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span> telling him she had some important letters to write,
+and he said he would take a walk in the garden till she was done.'</p>
+
+<p>"Uncle John was very kind, and consented to go with us; and not only so,
+but took us to the best places, and while we filled our baskets sat
+reading beside us. Then, when we had picked enough, he told us stories
+while we rested; and we were very happy. Something he said about a boy
+he once knew made Vea think of Patrick, for she exclaimed, quite
+suddenly,&mdash;'Oh! do you know, sir, we have found Patrick out at last!
+When he was lying at the cottage, there were so many poor people came to
+ask for him, that even aunt became interested; and she made inquiries,
+and we found that Patrick was in the habit of helping them in some way
+or other. One old woman told us he actually drew all the stock of
+drift-wood she has at her cottage, and piled it up there for her.'</p>
+
+<p>"'But how did he manage to do it without you finding him out?' said
+Uncle John.</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh, he rose and went out very early in the morning,' replied Vea. 'The
+servants were often complaining of the state of his boots; so, in case
+they would find him out, he used to leave<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span> them in the garden and go
+without his stockings. And do you know, sir, he was telling me such a
+sad story about that poor woman, and the reason why he helped her. She
+has lost her husband<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span> and three sons; and then her only child, a little
+girl, was drowned one day looking for drift-wood on the sea-shore.'</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img065.jpg" width="346" height="500"
+             alt="GATHERING WILD FLOWERS." /><br />
+         <b>GATHERING WILD FLOWERS.</b>
+    </div>
+
+
+<p>"'That will be Widow Martin then, I suppose!' said my uncle. 'Her story
+was indeed a sad one.&mdash;I am very glad to hear such good accounts of my
+young friend Patrick.'</p>
+
+<p>"'And I am glad about it too, sir,' said Vea. 'Aunt Mary will be so
+pleased; but do you know, I am afraid Alfred has been the bad boy all
+the time, for since Patrick has been ill he is never done falling into
+disgrace. Aunt was seriously angry with him; and I overheard Patrick
+saying, "You see, Alfred, I often told you, you would be found out in
+the end; I couldn't always take the blame to screen you, so you had
+better give it up." Isn't Patrick a strange boy, sir?'</p>
+
+<p>"It was a happy day for little Vea when her brother Patrick was able to
+be wheeled out, by his faithful friend Dick, in the chair his aunt got
+for the purpose; and I need not say that Patrick enjoyed it very much. I
+was invited to spend a week with them then, and as the weather was
+indeed beautiful, we were constantly in the open air. Patrick had always
+been fond of gardening, and it vexed him to see how his flowers had
+been<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span> neglected during his illness. 'Never mind,' said Dick; 'I bean't
+much of a gardener, but I'll do my best to set it all to rights, and I'm
+sure the young ladies there will lend a hand.'</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img067.jpg" width="320" height="500"
+             alt="DICK TRYING HIS HAND AT GARDENING." /><br />
+         <b>DICK TRYING HIS HAND AT GARDENING.</b>
+    </div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"While Dick dug the ground, Vea and Alfred and I arranged the flowers,
+much to the satisfaction of every one; and even Alfred, who was not very
+fond of work, said these busy days were the happiest he had ever spent.</p>
+
+<p>"The day before I left my kind friends, Uncle John came over with a
+letter from home, saying that I was to return there immediately.</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh dear; I am so sorry,' said Vea. 'I was hoping, sir, she might be
+allowed to stay for ever so long&mdash;at anyrate till all our gardens were
+finished.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Ah! but there is a pleasant surprise awaiting Miss Lily there,' said
+my uncle, laughing. 'I am almost certain that even the lovely gardens
+will be quite forgotten when she sees what it is.'</p>
+
+<p>"'A pleasant surprise, uncle!' I exclaimed. 'What is it?&mdash;do tell me,
+please!'</p>
+
+<p>"'You can't be told till you reach home,' said my uncle, laughing; 'I am
+bound over to secrecy.' And though I over and over again tried to get
+him to tell me, he only laughed, as he replied, 'All in good time, Lily;
+you wouldn't have me break my promise, surely.'</p>
+
+<p>"Dolly was so sorry to part with me, and I was so sorry to leave her,
+that while we were packing my clothes we cried over the trunk.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"'I wouldn't mind your going, miss,' said Dolly, 'if I thought you would
+remember me sometimes; but I'm thinking, now that there is a new&mdash;&mdash; Oh
+dear, dear,' she cried; 'I was just about to let the cat out of the bag,
+and what would your uncle have said to that, I wonder!'</p>
+
+<p>"It was plain now that Dolly knew of the pleasant surprise that was
+waiting for me at home, and the thought of it helped me to be less sorry
+to part with her and kind Uncle John and all the pleasant things at the
+rectory. All the way home I kept thinking what it could be. A new doll,
+perhaps, that grandmamma was to send for my birth-day present; but then
+my birth-day did not come for weeks yet. A work-box lined with
+rose-pink, perhaps; but that was to arrive when my sampler was
+finished&mdash;and oh, what a large piece was still to be sewed. I tired
+myself trying to think, and at last gave it up in despair.</p>
+
+<p>"Of all the things I had thought of, it never came into my head to expect
+a new baby-sister; but so it was. When I entered the parlour, and was
+rushing up to fling myself into my mother's arms, what was my surprise
+to find a lovely baby&mdash;the very thing I had been wishing for&mdash;yes,
+actually a baby-sister.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img070.jpg" width="399" height="450"
+             alt="MY BABY-SISTER." /><br />
+         <b>MY BABY-SISTER.</b>
+    </div>
+
+
+
+<p>"I don't think I was ever so happy in my life as at that moment, when I
+was allowed to take the baby in my lap and examine her tiny fingers and
+toes; and when she smiled in my face, and seemed to be pleased with her
+big sister, I actually cried, I was so happy. While I was sitting
+holding baby in this way, my father returned home with Willie, my
+brother, and such fun and laughing we had, to be sure! But I must own I
+did feel a little vexed when papa one day said to me, a few weeks after
+I had returned home, 'Well, Lily, now that you have got such a fat baby<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span>
+sister to carry about, you will have to lay aside your dolls.'</p>
+
+<p>"I was very sorry, for I loved my dolls exceedingly; they had been my
+dear companions and friends for so long. But I knew papa scarcely
+approved of me playing so much with them, and fancied I might be more
+usefully employed. I took out my last new doll, Eva, for a walk that
+afternoon, feeling somehow that she must be laid away in a drawer till
+baby grew up, when she should have her to be her faithful companion.
+Stepping out at the side gate into the lane to look for Willie, who had
+gone to the post, I found an old woman sitting down to rest. After
+speaking to her for a minute or two, I discovered, to my great delight,
+that she was the mother of Will Dampier, and the grandmother of Polly.
+She had just come from the Bluff Crag that very day, where she had been
+to see her son; and she told me that the last thing she saw, in looking
+back from the bank above, before turning into the main road, was her son
+with his crab-basket on his back, and Master Patrick Berkley alongside
+of him.</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh, I am so glad to hear this,' I replied; 'that shows Patrick's leg
+must be quite well<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span> and strong again. And how are Miss Vea and Alfred?
+did you see them also?"</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img072.jpg" width="412" height="600"
+             alt="MEETING POLLY'S GRANDMOTHER." /><br />
+         <b>MEETING POLLY'S GRANDMOTHER.</b>
+    </div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"'No, miss,' said the old woman, 'I didn't see them. The young lady and
+her brother have gone to stay with another aunt at some distance off;
+but Master Patrick is to remain with Mrs. Berkley all the winter. I'm
+sure there's more than my son and Polly were glad indeed to hear this,
+for he is a good friend to the poor, and does many a good action to help
+them when he thinks as they are frail.'</p>
+
+<p>"After resting for some time by the kitchen-fire, Polly's grandmother
+went away, not without promising to come in again if ever she was
+passing that way when going to see her son.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>"That visit was the beginning of many, and very many pleasant days I
+afterwards spent at the Bluff Crag Rectory. But it is near your bedtime,
+my dears, and I must stop for the present, and send you to bed," said
+Mrs. Lincoln.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh! do tell us some more, mamma," pleaded Robert. "I want you to tell
+us again of those cousins of Vea Berkley's who came from India, and you
+haven't even mentioned their names."</p>
+
+<p>"All in good time, my dears," said Mrs. Lincoln, laughing; "that is only
+the beginning<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span> of the Bluff Crag stories. It would never do, you know,
+to have them all told at once. We shall have the story of Vea and her
+cousins another time, never fear;" and with this promise the children
+had to be content, and say "Good-night."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+             <img   src="images/img074.jpg" width="350" height="219"
+             alt="THE END." /><br />
+
+    </div>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
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+<hr class="full" />
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, Bluff Crag, by Mrs. George Cupples
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+Title: Bluff Crag
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+Author: Mrs. George Cupples
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+BLUFF CRAG;
+
+Or,
+
+A Good Word Costs Nothing.
+
+A Tale for the Young.
+
+by
+
+MRS. GEORGE CUPPLES,
+
+Author of "The Story of Our Doll," "The Little Captain,"
+Etc., Etc.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+London:
+T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row;
+Edinburgh; and New York.
+1872.
+
+
+
+[Illustration: A SCENE AT BLUFF CRAG.]
+
+
+
+
+BLUFF CRAG.
+
+
+"This is such a capital night for a story, papa," said Robert Lincoln to
+his father, who had laid away his newspaper and seemed inclined to take
+an extra forty winks.
+
+"Indeed, Robert," said Mr. Lincoln, smiling, "I wonder if you would ever
+tire of hearing stories. I don't think I have one left; you and Lily
+have managed to exhaust my store."
+
+"O papa, please don't say that," cried Lily, who was putting away her
+school-books on their proper shelf at the end of the room. "I am sure,
+if you shut your eyes and think very hard for a few minutes, you will be
+sure to find one."
+
+"Very well, then, I shall try," said Mr. Lincoln; "perhaps there may be
+one among the cobwebs in my brain." Covering his face over with his
+newspaper, Mr. Lincoln lay back in his chair, and the children, drawing
+their stools closer to the fire, waited in patience to see the result of
+his meditation. It soon became evident, however, by his breathing, which
+became louder and longer, that Mr. Lincoln was falling asleep, and when
+at last he gave a loud snore, Robert could stand it no longer, and
+springing up, pulled the newspaper away, exclaiming,--
+
+"O papa, you were actually going to sleep! You'll never find the story
+if you do!"
+
+"I think, after all, I _must_ have dropped over," said Mr. Lincoln,
+rubbing his eyes; "but you are wrong in thinking I couldn't find a story
+in my sleep, for I was just in the middle of such a nice one, when you
+wakened me, and, lo and behold, I found it was a dream."
+
+"Oh, do tell us what you dreamed, papa," said Lily. "Your dreams are so
+funny sometimes. I think I like them better than the real stories."
+
+"But it was only a bit of a dream. Bob there in his impatience knocked
+off the end, and I think it was going to be a very entertaining one."
+
+"I'll tell you how you can manage, papa," said Lily earnestly, "you can
+make an end to it as you go along: you do tell us such nice stories out
+of your head."
+
+Mrs. Lincoln having come into the room with the two younger children, a
+chair was placed for her and baby beside Mr. Lincoln. Little Dick
+trotted off to Robert's knee, and the dog, Charley, hearing that a story
+was going to be told, laid himself down on the rug before the fire, at
+Lily's feet.
+
+[Illustration: WAITING FOR PAPA'S STORY.]
+
+"It's a very strange story, mamma," said Robert. "Papa fell asleep for
+two or three minutes, and dreamed the beginning of it. I am so sorry I
+wakened him; but he gave such a loud snore, I never thought he could be
+dreaming when he did that."
+
+"Ah, but you are wrong there," said Mr. Lincoln, laughing; "you will
+hear the reason of the snore very soon. Well, then, to begin--but how
+can I begin? Lily likes stories to set out with 'Once upon a time;' and
+you, Master Bob, like me to mention the hero's name, and tell you how
+old he is, and describe him particularly. Now, in this case, I can do
+neither."
+
+"You will require to say, Once upon a time, when I was taking 'forty
+winks,'" said Mrs. Lincoln, laughing. "I cannot see how you are to
+relate this strange story without a beginning."
+
+"Neither can I," said Mr. Lincoln. "You know everything depends upon a
+good beginning. Therefore I think I had better go to sleep again, and
+perhaps I shall dream one."
+
+"Oh, please, papa, don't; I am sure the one mamma suggested is
+first-rate," said Robert impatiently.
+
+"Very well, then, once upon a time I dreamed a dream--"
+
+"It's Joseph and his broders papa is going to tell us about," cried
+little Dick. "Oh, I like that."
+
+Every one laughed, while Robert explained that this was papa's dream,
+not Joseph's; which set the little fellow's mind wandering away still
+more into the favourite narrative, and it was only after a whispered
+threat from Robert that he would be taken up to the nursery if he did
+not sit quiet and listen, that he consented to leave Joseph and his
+brethren alone for the present.
+
+"It's no use," said Mr. Lincoln, laughing, "somehow the dream has fled.
+I'll tell you what we shall do,--we shall ask mamma to tell one of her
+stories about when she was a little girl."
+
+"I should like to have heard the dream, papa," said Lily, "but if it has
+fled away it won't be brought back. I know I never can get mine to do it
+till perhaps just when I am not thinking about it, then there, it is
+quite distinctly."
+
+"Well, that will be the way mine may do," said Mr. Lincoln. "Come,
+mamma, we are waiting for yours. A good story-teller should begin
+without delay, and we all know what a capital one you are."
+
+"Very well, then," said Mrs. Lincoln. "You must know that when I was a
+little girl I had been ill, and your grandmamma sent me to live with her
+brother, my Uncle John, who was the rector of the neighbouring parish.
+Uncle John had no children, and his wife had died just a few weeks
+before I went to pay him this visit. He had been very fond of my aunt,
+and he was still very sad about her death; so that it would have been
+rather a dull life but for Dolly, the housekeeper. Every morning after
+breakfast Dolly had to go for potatoes to a small field at a little
+distance from the rectory, and she usually took me with her if the day
+was fine. I ran about so much chasing butterflies and birds, that when
+the basket was filled I was quite tired out, and very glad to be placed
+upon the wheel-barrow and be taken home in this manner by the
+good-natured Dolly.
+
+"And had you no little girl to play with, mamma?" asked Robert.
+
+[Illustration: COMING FROM THE POTATO-FIELD.]
+
+"Not for some time," replied Mrs. Lincoln. "Every one knew how sad my
+uncle was, and did not intrude upon him; but I never wearied so long as
+I had Dolly beside me. She could not read herself, but she was very fond
+of hearing me read to her, and though I could not do it very well then,
+I managed to make out the stories. Then your grandmamma had taught me a
+number of hymns, and I used to repeat them, and sometimes to sing them,
+which pleased Dolly very much. I think it was overhearing me singing
+one of the hymns that made Uncle John take notice of me at last. He
+used to shut himself in his study, and I scarcely ever saw him from one
+week's end to the other; but one day as he was going up-stairs I had
+been singing, and he came into the parlour, and, taking me on his knee,
+asked me to sing the hymn over again. I was a little nervous at first,
+but grandmamma had always told me to do the best I could when asked to
+repeat or sing a hymn, and I did so now. I suppose the words of the hymn
+pleased him, for from that time he always had me to dine with him; and
+he had such a kind manner, that I soon recovered from my shyness, and
+used to sit on his knee and prattle away to him as if he had been your
+grandpapa, and I had known him all my life. It made Dolly so pleased,
+too, for she said her master was beginning to look quite like his old
+self; and she only hoped your grandmamma would allow me to stay ever so
+long with him.
+
+"One day Uncle John returned earlier than usual, and calling Dolly,
+said, 'Get Miss Lilian ready to go out. Mrs. Berkley wishes me to spend
+the afternoon there, and I think it will do the child good. I fear she
+has had but a dull time of it lately.'
+
+"'Oh, please don't say that, uncle!' I exclaimed. 'I would rather stay
+at home with Dolly;' for the thought of the grand Mrs. Berkley, who came
+into church with her powdered footman carrying her Bible behind her,
+frightened me.
+
+"'No, no, my child; you must go with me,' said Uncle John quietly. 'It
+isn't good for you to be so much alone. You will have a good romp with
+some young people who are staying with Mrs. Berkley at present.'
+
+"'But I shall be beside you, Uncle John, shall I not?' I asked, with
+trembling lip.
+
+"'Why! are you afraid, dear? Come, come, this will never do; what is
+there to make you afraid? I am quite sure you will be sorry to leave
+when the hour comes for returning here.'
+
+"Mrs. Berkley's house stood upon a rising ground having a beautiful view
+of the sea. The rectory was about a mile inland from it; but though I
+had been very anxious to go to the beach, Dolly had never been able to
+spare the time, and as for trusting Mary, the younger servant, to take
+me, that was quite out of the question.
+
+"'I wonder if you could walk to Mrs. Berkley's,' said Uncle John. 'If
+so, we could go by the field-path, and so have a fine view of the sea.
+Do you think she could manage it, Dolly?'
+
+"'Oh yes, sir,' said Dolly, catching a glimpse of my delighted
+expression. 'Miss Lily has been wishing to take that walk ever since she
+came; for she has never seen the sea, she tells me.'
+
+"'Has never seen the sea!' said Uncle John, smiling, 'then there is a
+great treat in store for you; so come away, my child, and we shall have
+a quiet half-hour before going to Mrs. Berkley's.'
+
+"I don't think I shall ever forget that walk with Uncle John. Seeing
+that I was interested in the birds and the butterflies, he told me all
+sorts of stories about them--how the former built their nests, and how
+the latter was first a caterpillar before changing into a bright
+butterfly. Then he pointed out many curious things about the flowers I
+plucked on the way. He seemed to my mind to know about everything; and,
+in consequence, my respect increased for him more and more, and I
+somehow became a little afraid of him.
+
+"But when, from the top of the hill, we caught the first glimpse of the
+blue sea lying below, with the fishing-boats in the distance, I quite
+forgot I was beginning to be shy of Uncle John, and screamed aloud,
+clapping my hands delightedly. He was so good to me, too. Fearing that
+in my rapture I might lose my footing and slip down the face of the
+rocks, Uncle John took me by the hand, and holding me fast, let me gaze
+upon the scene without interruption.
+
+[Illustration: THE FIRST WALK BY THE SEA-SIDE.]
+
+"'Now we must go, dear,' said Uncle John. 'Strange, that of all the
+works of creation none make such a wonderful impression as the first
+sight one gets of the sea.'
+
+"'Do you ever walk this way, uncle?' I inquired, as we turned into
+another path that led to Mrs. Berkley's mansion.
+
+"'Sometimes; indeed, it is a favourite walk of mine,' he replied. 'I
+like to come and sit just at that point where you stood. Your aunt used
+to be very fond of that walk also.'
+
+"'It will be such a nice place to see her in the clouds,' I said, but a
+little timidly, for this was the first time he had ever mentioned her
+name, and he had sighed heavily when he did so.
+
+"'Why, what do you mean, Lily?' he asked abruptly, and, as I fancied, a
+little sternly.
+
+"'When my sister Alice died, uncle, I was so sad and lonely without
+her,' I replied. 'Mamma was so busy nursing my brother William, that I
+had to amuse myself the best way I could; and so I used to sit by the
+window gazing up into the sky; and when the clouds came sailing past, I
+used to fancy I saw sister Alice in the very white ones. Nurse told me
+she is now clothed in white, and I knew Alice would weary to see me too;
+and I used to think God, who is so good and kind, would perhaps let her
+hide in the white clouds.'
+
+"Uncle John drew me closer to him, and instead of reproving me for my
+fancy, he kissed me, as he said, 'Poor child, poor little town-bred
+child, if you had had flowers, and birds, and butterflies to chase, it
+would have been better for you. I think we shall have to write and ask
+mamma to send us Willie here also.'
+
+"'Oh, that would be so nice!' I exclaimed. 'Willie would enjoy it so
+much! But see, uncle, there are some children with a donkey coming this
+way.'
+
+"'These are some of the young people I told you were living with Mrs.
+Berkley.--Hollo!' cried uncle, signalling to the children, who came
+running down the path as fast as they could the moment they heard the
+rector's voice. There was a little girl on the donkey's back, and two
+boys by the side of it, with a stable-lad to see that she did not tumble
+off.
+
+"'We were so glad when you called, sir,' said the oldest boy. 'Aunt
+Berkley said we might go and meet you, but we thought you would come by
+the highway.'
+
+"'Yes; but this little niece of mine had never seen the sea, and I
+wanted to let her have her first view from the Bluff Crag.'
+
+[Illustration: VEA ON HER DONKEY.]
+
+"'Then you have never been down to the beach?' said the little girl. 'We
+must get aunt to allow us to go there after dinner. It is such a
+delightful walk;--isn't it, sir? And you needn't be afraid to trust her
+with us, for we take Natilie when we go, and she is so careful.'
+
+"'And who is Natilie?' inquired Uncle John, lifting the little girl from
+the donkey at her request.
+
+"'Oh, Natilie is our French maid, and she is so nice; even the boys like
+Natilie.--But what is your name, please?' she continued, turning to me.
+'Mine is Vivian Berkley, but the boys and all my friends call me Vea.'
+
+"'My name is Lilian, but I am called Lily at home--Lily Ashton,' I
+replied.
+
+"'Then I shall call you Lily too, may I not?' she said, looking up into
+my face with a kindly smile, and taking my hand, while her beautiful
+blue eyes sparkled. 'I am so glad you have come, dear Lily,' she
+continued. 'I do want a companion like you so much!'
+
+"'Do you find the boys unsocial, then, Miss Vea?' inquired Uncle John.
+
+"'Oh no, sir,' she replied; 'but they are boys, and you know girls are
+not allowed to do exactly what they do, so I am often alone.'
+
+"'And what do you do when you are alone?' said Uncle John, evidently
+amused with the precise though sweet tone of voice of little Vea.
+
+"'I play with my doll Edith, and I read my story-books, and I talk to
+Natilie. Do you know, sir,' she said, letting my hand loose and taking
+my uncle's as we mounted up the steep slope to the road above, while the
+donkey was led round by another way, followed by the boys, 'poor
+Natilie, when she came to stay with us, could not speak a word of
+English, and she was so sad. And the boys used to laugh at her, and so
+did I sometimes, till Aunt Mary, in whose house we were living, told us
+that if we only knew poor Natilie's sad story we would be so sorry for
+her, that, instead of laughing, we would be apt to cry.'
+
+"'And what was the story?' inquired the rector.
+
+"'Oh,' said Vea, laughing, 'Aunt Mary was so cunning about it, she
+wouldn't tell us a word, but said we must learn our French very fast,
+and that then Natilie would tell it for herself; and as Aunt Mary said
+it was far more interesting than any we could read in our story-books,
+we did try to understand what she said to us very hard indeed. But we
+haven't heard the story yet; only we never laugh at Natilie now, for we
+have made out little bits of it, and we know the chief reason why she is
+sad is this: her husband is a very bad man, and he ran away and left
+her, and carried off her two little children, and she cannot find
+them.--But will you please walk into the garden, sir?' she continued,
+opening a side gate. 'Aunt said we might show you the new rustic table
+as we came along.'
+
+[Illustration: THE NEW RUSTIC TABLE.]
+
+"Patrick, the eldest boy, who had run on before, joined us just as we
+came up to the arbour, where a neat round table stood, having curious
+feet made out of the rough branches of a tree; the top had been
+polished, and painted with varnish, and looked very splendid indeed. But
+the quick eyes of Vea soon detected an ugly scar on the bright surface,
+as if some boy had been attempting to cut out a letter upon it.
+
+"'Oh dear, who has done this?' cried little Vea, while Patrick turned
+away with blushing face. 'Patrick, this is a wicked action; do you know
+anything about it? Now be careful; think well before you answer.'
+
+"Uncle John could scarcely keep from smiling at the way Vea spoke, and
+the anxious manner shown towards her brother. 'O Patrick,' she
+exclaimed, 'if you did this, it is very wicked; you must go and tell
+aunt about it at once.'
+
+"Instead of answering, however, Patrick set off at a gallop, and
+disappeared behind some bushes, leaving Vea standing looking after him
+with glistening eyes. 'What is to be done now?' she said, as if to
+herself; 'it is so difficult to get Patrick to own a fault, and I fear
+he will lead Alfred into more mischief. O mamma, mamma, I wish you had
+never left us! I do try to keep the boys right, but they are so wild
+sometimes.'
+
+"'You cannot do more than your best, my child,' said my uncle, laying
+his hand tenderly on her bowed head. 'Would you like me to speak to
+your aunt for Patrick?'
+
+"'Oh no, sir, thank you very kindly,' she said, drying her eyes hastily;
+'Patrick must confess the fault himself, if he has done it. Aunt Berkley
+is so good-natured, that I am sure she would excuse him if you asked;
+but that would not be safe for Patrick,--he forgets so soon, and will be
+at some other mischief directly. Aunt Mary warned me about this very
+sort of thing.'
+
+"'Well, I am sure he ought to be a good boy, having such a kind, good
+little sister to look after him.'
+
+"'Please, sir, don't say that,' said Vea, the tears coming to her eyes
+again; 'I don't deserve such praise; for the reason why Aunt Mary told
+me of Patrick's faults was, she wished to point out my own, and she
+knows I am so lazy, and don't like to check the boys, lest they should
+call me "Goody;" but Aunt Mary said I ought to look after them,--that a
+good word costs nothing; at anyrate, if I had only to bear being called
+a harmless name, it was but a very small cross, compared to the evil I
+might cause by allowing the boys to play mischievous tricks.'
+
+"'That is right, my dear child,' said Uncle John; 'we must do our duty,
+however hard it may be; and though a good word in one sense costs
+nothing, still we all know it sometimes costs a good deal, and is a
+difficult matter, to a great many people.'
+
+[Illustration: ON BOARD THE STEAMER.]
+
+"To Vea's astonishment, instead of her Aunt Berkley letting her brother
+off easily, when she found out about the mischief done to the table, she
+was so very angry that she would not allow him to join the party that
+afternoon in the excursion in the steamer. While she pointed out the
+various objects of interest to Vea and myself, seeing that poor Vea was
+depressed in spirits--her kind heart suffering extremely when her
+brothers fell into error--Aunt Berkley whispered, 'You are not vexed
+with me, dear child, for punishing Patrick? If he had owned the fault, I
+would have forgiven him; but he was so stubborn, and would not even
+speak when spoken to. Alfred is so different.'
+
+"'Oh no,' said Vea quickly; 'I am only sorry that he was so naughty and
+required the punishment;' but, as if afraid she was condemning her
+brother, she added, 'Patrick has a warm, affectionate nature, aunt; if
+he could only get over his love of mischief he would be a dear, good
+boy.'
+
+"'Well, my dear, we must try to help him to be good. Boys will be boys,
+however; though it is necessary to punish them sometimes, else they
+might get into serious disgrace. We must have another excursion soon,
+and perhaps the thought of it will keep Patrick from being naughty.'
+
+"On reaching home that afternoon they found the school-room empty; and
+though Patrick had been told he was to remain in the house till his aunt
+returned, he was nowhere to be found. Alfred sought for him in all their
+favourite haunts about the out-houses and garden, but without success.
+'I'll tell you where he will be, Vea,' said Alfred, on his return to the
+school-room from a last hunt in the orchard,--'he has gone to the cave
+at the Bluff Crag.'
+
+"'Oh, surely not,' said Vea in distress. 'Aunt told us distinctly we
+were never to go there without leave from her, and then only with some
+person who knows the coast well. What makes you fancy such a thing,
+Alfred?'
+
+"'Because, I remember now, he muttered to himself about giving aunt
+something to be angry for; and he has often been wanting me to go
+there.'
+
+"'I hope this is not the case, Alfred,' said Vea. 'But perhaps aunt
+would allow us to go down to the beach with Natilie, to look for him.'
+
+"'I daresay she will,' said Alfred; 'but if you do ask her, don't
+mention Patrick's name; you needn't be getting him always into a scrape
+by your tale-telling.'
+
+"'O Alfred, how cruel you are,' said Vea, 'when you know I am always
+trying to get you boys out of scrapes!' and the tears rose to her eyes.
+
+"'Very well, then, I won't,' said Alfred; 'you are a dear, good little
+sister, and we do bother you tremendously sometimes. Stay you here, and
+I will ask aunt to let us go to the beach.'
+
+"Alfred soon returned, stating that his aunt had said Yes at once to his
+request; 'But,' he added, laughing, 'I think she did not know very well
+what she was saying, she was so busy talking to the rector.'
+
+"Natilie was quite willing to accompany us, and very soon we were down
+on the beach; but whichever way we looked we could not see any trace of
+the missing Patrick. All of a sudden Alfred gave a shout, and pointed in
+the direction of some great high rocks upon which stood a light-house.
+
+"'See, Vea, there is Wild Dick running upon the rocks!' cried Alfred
+excitedly.
+
+"'Where?' said Vea, standing on tip-toe, and straining her head forward
+towards the place Alfred was pointing out.
+
+"'I see von boy,' said Natilie, in her strange broken English. 'Him not
+be Master Patrick. I know him now for that same wicked boy Mrs. Berkley
+forbid you speak to.'
+
+"'But I tell you Patrick is with him,' said Alfred, showing he knew more
+about his brother's movements than he had owned at first. 'Dick offered
+to help him to find some sea-birds' eggs, and they have gone off to get
+them now.'
+
+"At this moment the boy called Dick observed us, and as soon as he did
+so he began to make signs in a most excited manner to us to hasten.
+
+[Illustration: WILD DICK.]
+
+"'There has been some accident to Master Patrick, I much fear,' said
+Natilie, beginning to run. 'Oh, when will that boy be good?'
+
+"On coming closer to Dick, it soon became evident that an accident had
+really happened; and in a few moments more they learned that the
+unfortunate Patrick, in climbing the rocks, had lost his footing, and
+had fallen down from a considerable height.
+
+"'I think he's broken his leg, miss,' said Dick to Vea. 'And how he is
+to be taken out of that 'ere hole he has fallen into, is what I'd like
+very much to know.'
+
+"'Do show us where he is, Dick,' said Vea. 'Oh, be quick; he may die if
+his leg is not attended to at once!'
+
+"It was no easy matter to scramble over the stony beach to the place
+where Patrick was lying; and rather a pitiable sight it was to see him
+with his leg doubled under him, and with a face so very pale that it was
+no wonder Vea cried out with pure horror, for she evidently thought he
+was going to faint, or die altogether, perhaps.
+
+"'Oh, what shall we do?' cried Vea. 'How are we to get him up? and how
+are we to get him carried home?'
+
+"'I would not have you distress yourself so, Miss Vea,' said Natilie. 'I
+think I can get him out of this difficulty, with very little patience,
+if we could get him carried home.'
+
+"'If you get him out of the hole he has fallen into,' said Dick, 'I will
+manage the rest.'
+
+"'But how can you carry him over such a rough beach?' asked Alfred.
+
+"'I will get the boat from my grandfather,' replied Dick, 'and we can
+row him round to the harbour, where the men can help us up to the house
+with him.'
+
+"'Oh yes, that will be the plan,' said Vea. 'Do run, like a good boy,
+and get the boat; I am sure your grandfather will be very glad to lend
+it to us, for Patrick was always a favourite with him.'
+
+"'And I know somebody who is a greater favourite than even Master
+Patrick,' replied Dick, smiling, before he hurried away towards his
+grandfather's house.
+
+"Very soon, though it seemed a long time to Vea, Dick was plainly seen
+shoving out the boat from the shore, with the assistance of two boys,
+who then jumped in and rowed it round as close to where Patrick lay as
+they possibly could.
+
+"Natilie had by this time managed to get Patrick up out of the sort of
+hole he had fallen into, and by our united efforts we at last succeeded
+in getting him into the boat, where we all helped to support him, as he
+had fainted away again. It was considered advisable to row to Dick's
+grandfather's house for the present; and accordingly the boat was
+steered for a cove, up which the tide carried us.
+
+[Illustration: FETCHING THE BOAT.]
+
+"The hut where Dick's grandfather lived was a very poor one, built
+mostly of turf, and thatched with rough bent or sea-grass. The
+chimney-can was made with an old barrel, which stood the blast and
+served better than an ordinary one would have done at such a stormy part
+of the coast. One or two fishing-boats lay at the rough pier or jetty
+old Dick had constructed, the men belonging to which were earnestly
+engaged preparing their nets for going to sea that evening; while a
+number of boys were busy sailing miniature boats in a small pool left by
+the last tide. No sooner, however, did they hear the shouts of their
+companions in our boat, than they left their sport, and hurried down to
+lend a hand in pulling in the boat to a place of security.
+
+"'Has grandfather come back from the town, Jack?' cried Dick to a
+rough-looking boy, the tallest of them all, and who had carried his
+model boat in his arms, instead of leaving it as the others had done
+theirs.
+
+"'No, he ha'n't,' replied Jack; 'and, what's more, it's likely he won't
+be for some time either; for I hears Tom Brown saying to Tim that my
+father would be late to-night, and I knows your grandfather is to keep
+him company.'
+
+"'Then what's to be done now, miss?' said Dick. 'I had been thinking
+grandfather, who knows all about sores, seeing as he was boatswain's
+mate aboard a man-o'-war, might have been able to put young master's leg
+to rights.'
+
+"'Oh no, Dick, that would never do,' said Vea; 'we must get him ashore
+and laid in your grandfather's bed, and somebody had better run up to
+tell aunt of the accident, and get her to send for the doctor at once.'
+
+[Illustration: WILD DICK'S HOME.]
+
+"While Natilie prepared the bed in the old fisherman's hut, Patrick was
+being carried by the men who had been summoned from the boats. The poor
+boy was still in a fainting state, and it was not till after he had been
+laid on the bed that he opened his eyes and showed signs of
+consciousness. 'Oh, where am I?' he uttered; but even this exertion was
+too much for him, and he became insensible once more.
+
+"'It's a bad break, this,' said one of the men to his fellow; 'I
+shouldn't wonder, now, if he had to lose his leg altogether!'
+
+"'Oh, please don't speak of it,' said Vea, her face becoming ghastly
+pale. 'Do look out again, Lily dear, and see if Alfred is coming with
+the doctor.'
+
+"Yes; there he was at last, running at a break-neck speed down the steep
+and rocky bank to the beach, while the doctor was distinctly seen high
+overhead on the regular path, coming very quickly too. Indeed, though he
+had taken the longest road, and did not seem to hasten like Alfred, he
+was only a few minutes behind him, and showed no signs of heat and
+over-exertion.
+
+"'Heyday, this is a pretty business,' said Dr. Blyth cheerily. 'What's
+this you've been about, Miss Vea? breaking your brother's leg, eh?' All
+this time he had been unrolling a case of formidable-looking
+instruments, taking off his coat, and getting fresh water brought, and
+bandages prepared with the help of Natilie. When these were ready, he
+turned to look at his patient, and bidding every one leave the hut but
+the two fishermen and Natilie, he shut the door against them himself,
+and secured it firmly.
+
+"'Oh, please, doctor, let me stay,' Vea had said pitifully. 'I'm sure
+Patrick would like me to stay.'
+
+"'I'm sure of that too,' said the doctor kindly; 'but you shall have
+plenty of nursing by-and-by: don't be afraid, I mean to engage you as my
+chief assistant. Meanwhile, my dear, trust me for knowing what is best
+for you and for your brother, and take yourself off to the beach there.
+Come, Miss Lily,' he continued, turning to me, 'you take your friend
+down to the beach, and keep her there till I call you. Remember, you are
+not to leave the rock there till I call you, Miss Vea.'
+
+"'Oh dear, dear, it does seem hard,' said Vea, when we were seated under
+the rook, 'to leave Patrick in the hands of strangers. And yet, Dr.
+Blyth is such a good, kind man, I'm sure he won't give him unnecessary
+pain.'
+
+"'Would you like me to read a story to you, dear Vea?' I inquired,
+opening a book I had brought out with me. 'It might help to pass the
+time away.'
+
+[Illustration: DOWN ON THE BEACH.]
+
+"'Thank you, Lily,' said Vea; 'but I feel as if I couldn't listen to
+anything; and yet, if I sit here I shall go mad with the suspense.'
+
+"'Come, then, take a walk along the beach,' I replied; 'we will be
+within reach of the doctor's voice quite as well. I know he will take
+some time to set the leg; for when our stable-boy, Reuben, got his leg
+broken, the doctor took a long time to set it.'
+
+"'And did Reuben's leg get well again--quite well, I mean?' inquired Vea
+earnestly; 'was he able to walk with it as he did before?'
+
+"'Oh yes; he could use it quite as well as before,' I replied. 'Indeed,
+papa used to say Reuben was quicker at going a message after the
+accident than before.'
+
+"'Oh, I am so glad to hear that,' said Vea, sighing. 'I do hope it will
+be the same with Patrick. Poor Patrick! Aunt Mary has so often said he
+would need to get some severe lessons to make him think. She was always
+telling him that he would find out the path of transgressors is hard,
+instead of pleasant, as he seemed to fancy. I don't think there is such
+a miserable girl as I am in the world?' And here Vea began to cry.
+
+"After comforting her as well as I could, she was at last prevailed upon
+to take a short walk along the beach in the direction where some
+children were playing. As we walked along I told her that my mother
+often said, when we fancied ourselves ill-used and very unhappy, if we
+looked about us we would generally find that there was somebody even
+more miserable than we were ourselves. By this time we had come up to
+the children, and found three of them in earnest conversation. We were
+not long in discovering that the youngest was in evident distress, and
+her companions were listening to her words with deep interest.
+
+"'I wouldn't stand it, if I were you, Polly,' said the eldest girl, who
+was standing in front of the group.
+
+"'But what can I do, Martha?' replied the girl, rocking herself to and
+fro, and weeping afresh.
+
+"'Do? I would run away,' replied the other. 'I would go into service, or
+beg my bread from door to door, rather than bear what you have to bear.'
+
+"'But don't you think you had better speak to teacher, Polly?' said the
+other girl softly, looking from under her sun-bonnet with great
+dreamy-looking blue eyes; 'I wouldn't do anything rash before speaking
+to teacher. You remember what she said to us last Sunday, that all our
+trials were sent from our Father in heaven.'
+
+[Illustration: POOR POLLY.]
+
+"'Yes, Rachel, I heard her say that,' replied Polly; 'and I try to think
+about it; but oh! my step-mother would make anybody angry; and then my
+temper rises, and I speak out, and then I am beaten. I wouldn't mind
+that, however, if she would only beat me; but when I see her raise her
+hand to strike little Willie, who never was angry in his life, but was
+always gentle and good--always, always.'
+
+"'Is there anything I can do for you, little girl?' said Vea, stepping
+forward, forgetting for the time her own trouble while witnessing the
+distress of another. 'Why does your companion want you to run away?'
+
+"'It's to escape from her step-mother, miss,' replied the girl called
+Martha. 'She uses her shameful, she do, and all for what? Because
+Polly's father made so much of her afore he was lost.'
+
+"'And was your father lost at sea, Polly? Oh, how dreadful!' said Vea,
+seating herself on the stones beside her. 'And have you no mother of
+your own?'
+
+"'No, miss; mother died when Willie was a year old,' said Polly.
+
+"'And do you remember her quite well?' asked Vea.
+
+"'Oh yes, quite well, miss. It was a terrible night that, just before
+she died. Father was away to the town for some tackle, and I was left
+all alone with her and Willie. She hadn't been very well for some weeks,
+but nobody thought she was going to die. Even the very doctor had said
+that morning so cheerily to father she would weather through. She had
+been lying sleeping with Willie in her arms, but a sudden squall shook
+the door, and made it and the window-frame rattle, and that startled
+her, and she wakened. Then I couldn't help seeing she was much worse;
+and I tried to keep from crying, for she seemed wild-like, and the
+doctor had said she was to be kept quiet. Then she looked up in a
+moment, and said, "Polly, promise me you'll look after Willie when I
+die. Never let any harm come to Willie, mind that; and take care of
+father, but look well after Willie." She never spoke again, not even to
+father, who came in soon after, and cried like a baby over her. She just
+opened her eyes once, and looked at him with a smile, and tried to push
+Willie over to him, and then she died. How good father was to us then!
+He used to take Willie down to the beach with him while I made the house
+tidy and got the dinner; and he made Willie a fine boat, and dug out a
+place for him to sail it in; and oh! but we were happy then!'
+
+"'I don't think your father would have been lost if it hadn't been that
+step-mother of yours,' said Martha angrily. 'I can't a-bear her, I
+can't.'
+
+"'Oh, don't say that, Martha. It was God who took father,' said Polly,
+in a low whisper. 'Didn't you hear the rector saying it was God's will
+to send the storm that night?'
+
+[Illustration: LITTLE WILLIE AND HIS FATHER.]
+
+"'Yes,' said Martha; but if your step-mother had only bade your father
+stay at home, as all the other men did, he never would have been lost.
+Didn't old Joe Gafler warn them there was a squall a-coming! but no, she
+is so grasping, she wanted the money for the fish, and she let him go.
+It was a shame!'
+
+"'But father often says the boat may be found yet,' said Rachel; 'and
+you know even old Dick says the thing is likely.'
+
+"'Well, if so be's it should happen that Will Dampier comes to land
+again, I hope he'll know how his Polly has been treated when he was
+away,' said Martha.
+
+"'Oh, I wouldn't mind for myself not one bit,' said Polly. 'It's when
+she strikes Willie that I can't bear it; and I somehow think Willie is
+not so well this last week.'
+
+"'Then you mustn't think of running away, Polly,' said Vea. 'Wasn't that
+what Martha was urging you to do? If you went away, who would take care
+of Willie? Do you know, I have a brother I am very anxious about too,
+Polly?' said Vea. 'He is lying in Dick's cottage, with his leg broken,
+and the doctor is setting it while we are waiting out here.'
+
+"'Oh, I am very sorry indeed, miss,' said Polly, forgetting her own
+troubles in turn. 'Is that the young gentleman who is living with Mrs.
+Berkley?'
+
+"'Yes, Polly,' said Vea. 'Mrs. Berkley is my aunt.'
+
+"'He's a very kind young gentleman, miss. Is there anything I could do
+for him, miss? I should like to do something so much, for he helped me
+more than once.'
+
+"Vea naturally looked a little surprised, for Patrick was so often in
+trouble, that it was rather astonishing to hear any one praising him.
+
+"'I don't think it could be my brother Patrick,' said Vea.
+
+"'Oh yes, miss, that was his name,' said Polly. 'He told me his name was
+Patrick.'
+
+"'And what did Patrick do for you?' said Vea, looking much pleased.
+
+[Illustration: THE ANCHOR.]
+
+"'I was playing with Willie one day at the harbour, and young Dick was
+showing me a great anchor some of the men had left on shore for a new
+boat they were going to build, when my step-mother called from the
+cottage door, and bade me take the ropes and carry home the drift-wood
+she had been gathering all the morning. Dick said as how he was sorry he
+couldn't go to help me, as he had to go out in his grandfather's boat
+that afternoon; and so, after leaving Willie beside old Dick, I took the
+ropes and went down on the beach. My step-mother had called after me I
+was to drag them in three bundles, but they were so heavy that I had to
+separate the first one into two; and for doing this she beat me. I was
+going back to the next one, crying a good deal, for I was wishing I
+could go to my own mother and to father, when a boy jumped up from
+behind a stone, and asked me why I was crying; and so I told him. And
+when he heard it, he called my step-mother some hard names; and then
+says he, "Are you the little girl young Dick helps when he has any spare
+time?" And when I answered "Yes," he says, "Well, then, give me the
+ropes and I'll help you, for Dick is away to-day." I couldn't help
+saying that dragging drift-wood wasn't fit work for a gentleman; but he
+just laughed, and said there were lots of people would be glad to know
+Patrick Berkley was so usefully employed.'
+
+"'And did he drag the wood for you?' said Vea, the tears standing in her
+eyes.
+
+"'That he did, miss. And whenever he sees me carrying a heavy load along
+the beach, he just slips up to me, and, without saying a word, takes it
+out of my hand. And then if he sees any of the boys frightening me, he
+won't let them. I was so sorry, miss, for the cut he got on his eye;
+that was from wild Joe throwing a stone at him when he was carrying my
+basket for me round the Bluff Crag.'
+
+"'You have no idea how happy you have made me, Polly,' said Vea. 'Aunt
+Mary always says there is a great deal of good in Patrick, only his love
+of mischief sometimes chokes the good seed. It is very strange he never
+lets us see him doing a kind or a generous action.'
+
+[Illustration: BY THE BEACH.]
+
+"At this moment Natilie opened the cottage door and called to her young
+mistress to come up. I waited by the beach, and taking off my shoes and
+stockings, waded into the cool water. The girls were much amused at my
+delight, and I may say terror also, as, looking down into the clear blue
+water, I saw various small fishes darting in and out among the stones;
+and even Polly forgot her angry step-mother at home, and screamed with
+laughter at my sudden fright when a small crab seized hold of my great
+toe, and hung tenaciously to it, even when I was far up on the sandy
+beach.
+
+"Then Natilie came and called to me to come up also; and there I found
+Patrick lying very quiet and still on the bed, and Vea sitting by the
+side of it holding his hand. It was arranged that I should return to the
+house with Natilie and Alfred, while Vea remained with her brother till
+Natilie returned; but just as we were setting out, my Uncle John came
+down to see after the patient, and I was told I might amuse myself for
+an hour outside till the maid returned with the articles required by the
+doctor. I would have liked to have stayed with Vea, but both the doctor
+and my uncle thought that as the cottage was so small, the fewer there
+were in it the better for Patrick.
+
+"'I would like to get home,' said poor Patrick in a faint voice.
+'Couldn't I be carried home, sir?' he pleaded, turning to the doctor.
+
+[Illustration: DOWN AT THE COVE.]
+
+"'Not for some days, my boy,' replied the doctor kindly. 'If you lie
+very still, and attend to orders, we shall see what can be done for you
+then.'
+
+"But when the doctor had gone, Vea came slipping out, and bidding me
+follow her, went round to where some boats lay moored. A ladder was
+placed against the side of one of these, and up this Vea mounted before
+I knew what she was going to do. 'I feel sure,' she said, looking over
+the side of the boat to me, as I stood on the beach below, 'if we could
+only get Patrick hoisted up here, we might get him taken home quite
+safely.'
+
+"'Ah, but I don't think the doctor will allow you to do that,' I
+replied; 'I fear he must remain here for some weeks.'
+
+"'He seems very anxious to get home, poor boy. I cannot make it out,'
+said Vea. 'He says he will tell me the reason once he finds himself in
+his own bed at Aunt Berkley's. I wonder who this boat belongs to.'
+
+"'Polly said it belonged to Martha's father,' I replied; 'she told me so
+just before they left me to go home.'
+
+"'Polly, I hope, has quite made up her mind not to run away,' said Vea.
+
+"'Oh yes, I think she has given up that idea; indeed, I heard her say to
+Rachel she would try to bear it a little longer.'
+
+"'There is Dick returned already,' said Vea; and she scrambled out of
+the boat, and ran down to the beach to meet Dick, who was coming from
+the doctor's house with a basket containing medicines for the sick boy.
+
+[Illustration: DICK RETURNING WITH THE MEDICINE.]
+
+"'Oh, you are a good boy, Dick,' said Vea. 'How fast you must have
+gone!'
+
+"'Well, yes, miss, I did go fast,' said Dick, pleased with Vea's speech
+apparently. 'I went by the beach, the tide being out, and it is nigher
+that way by a good mile. I would go faster than most folks for the young
+master.'
+
+"'Why, has Patrick been kind to you too, Dick!' said Vea, in much
+surprise.
+
+"'That he has, miss,' said Dick gratefully. 'When I lost grandfather's
+knife, didn't he buy me a new one with the new half-crown his aunt gave
+him to spend at the fair! And didn't he let grandfather think he had
+broken the glass in the window, when all the time it was me, and nobody
+else! And hasn't he often and often brought me a bit of his own dinner
+tied up in his handkerchief, or a pie he would find lying handy in the
+pantry, when he knowed I'd had nothing for my dinner that day at all!'
+
+"Vea said nothing, but she evidently thought her brother was a very
+curious boy, and that she had not understood him at all.
+
+"When Natilie had returned with the things required by the sick boy and
+his attendants, Uncle John and I set off home, he promising that we
+would return the next afternoon to inquire after Patrick. The sun was
+just shedding its last rays of golden light over the sea, lighting it up
+with a strange lurid light, which, with the stillness of the scene, and
+the great rocks on the coast, left a strange impression on my mind.
+
+"'And you say you have enjoyed yourself, my dear!' said Uncle John,
+after we had walked on in silence for some time.
+
+[Illustration: GOING HOME WITH UNCLE JOHN.]
+
+"'Oh, very much indeed, uncle,' I replied. 'I like Vea so much, and
+Alfred is such a funny boy. Isn't it a pity that Patrick is so fond of
+mischief, when he seems to have such a kind heart?'
+
+"'I've always liked that boy Patrick,' said my uncle; 'and, what is
+more,' he continued, as if to himself, 'I never liked Alfred.'
+
+"'That is very strange, uncle,' I replied; 'he is such a polite boy, and
+so quiet in the drawing-room. He is so funny too; he nearly set me off
+laughing at the funny faces he made behind his aunt's back; and he can
+speak just like her, in that queer low drawling tone.'
+
+"'Exactly,' said my uncle; 'that is the very thing I dislike about him.
+He has the power of mimicry, and is also able to keep a grave face when
+others are forced to laugh--a thing poor Patrick is not able to do, and
+the consequence is he gets into sad disgrace for laughing, and, to save
+his brother, won't tell what he is laughing at. Alfred is a mean boy,
+for twice I have seen him allow his brother to be punished, when, by
+simply telling he was the cause of it, the punishment might have been
+avoided. Now, who do you think was the actual culprit who cut that nice
+table in the summer-house?'
+
+"'It must have been Patrick, uncle; he never denied it,' I replied.
+
+"'That is the strange thing, dear. Patrick is greatly to blame in this,
+that he will not tell upon his brother, but is so easy-minded, that,
+rather than exert himself to make his friends think well of him, he
+allows every one to suppose that he is the offender; and, as I said
+before, Alfred is so mean, that, knowing this, he plays the tricks and
+lets his brother take the blame. A tale-teller is to be despised; but a
+boy who is so lazy that he cannot say a good word for himself when his
+character is concerned, is almost as bad.'
+
+"'But how did you find all this out, uncle?' I inquired.
+
+"'Well, I overheard the two boys speaking about it in the shrubbery; and
+what struck me most was, even when Patrick had an opportunity to reprove
+his younger brother he did not do so, though a good word costs nothing,
+and might save his brother much misery in the end. I am half glad he has
+met with this accident; it will give him time to think.'
+
+"At this moment a boat sailed past, filled with gay company, who waved
+their handkerchiefs to us, and cheered most lustily. One little girl
+held up her doll, and made it wave its hat to Uncle John's polite bow,
+which made them all laugh very much.
+
+"Dolly was very glad to see me again, and said so kindly that she had
+never spent such a long, dull day, and that she hoped I would not go
+junketting in a hurry, else she would require to go with me herself.
+There was no time to tell her all the story of our visit to Mrs. Berkley
+that night, because a woman came in asking her to go down to the village
+to see a sick man who had wandered there that day, and had been found
+lying under a hedge by a field-worker. Then, as it was close to my
+bed-hour, and I was very tired, Dolly carried me off to my room at once,
+and when she had seen me safely in bed, went away. The next morning
+while at breakfast she told me the sick man was apparently a fisherman,
+but he was so weak he could not give an account of himself. Once or
+twice he had suddenly become uneasy in his sleep, and had moaned out a
+name some of the women thought was Polly, but so faintly, that they
+could not be sure even of that.
+
+"'Oh, it must be Polly's father come to life again,' I cried, starting
+up and knocking over my basin of milk upon the clean white table-cover.
+'Oh, do let me run and tell uncle about it, Dolly; he will know what
+ought to be done.'
+
+[Illustration: OVERTAKEN BY THE STORM.]
+
+"Uncle John did not like to be disturbed in the morning, but this was an
+extra case, and after Dolly had heard of the sufferings poor Polly had
+to endure from her cruel step-mother, she allowed me to go to the study
+door and tap gently. Uncle John listened very attentively to the story
+about us meeting the three little girls on the beach, and at once agreed
+to set out to inquire for the sick man; and proposed, if he was still
+too weak to answer questions, to go on to the Bluff Crag, and get one of
+the fishermen from there to come up to look at him. Fortunately, when my
+uncle arrived the sick man was much better, and though only able to
+speak a word at a time, understood all the questions that were put to
+him. It soon became evident that this was indeed Polly's long-lost
+father. When he was a little stronger he told how the boat that fearful
+night had drifted away along the coast, and how it at last was dashed up
+on the rocky beach, and how he had been thrown out into a sort of cave,
+where there was barely standing room when the tide was full, and how he
+had lived for days on the shell-fish that he found sticking to the side
+of the cave, or the eggs he found on the shelves of rock; and at last,
+when even this scanty supply failed him, and he was nearly mad from the
+want of water, how he had dashed himself into the sea, determined to be
+done with his misery. Then he told how, when he came to himself, he
+found he was lying in a cottage, with a woman bending over him, and a
+man sitting smoking by the fire, stirring some stuff in a pan. It seemed
+that this man was a collector of birds' eggs, and, knowing about this
+cave, he had come down, with the help of a great strong rope tied round
+his waist, to gather eggs. Great was his surprise when he saw the body
+of a man floating in the water; but he lost no time in seizing him by
+the belt, and, with the help of his comrades up at the top, brought him
+safely to land.
+
+[Illustration: RESCUED.]
+
+"You can understand how glad Polly was when, that same evening, Uncle
+John took me with him to tell her of her father's safety. I kept
+fancying all the way that when she heard the news she would dance and
+shriek with joy, and clap her hands; but, instead of that, she just sat
+quietly down on a stool by the fire. What a white face she had, and how
+her lips trembled! Even Uncle John was struck by her appearance, and
+must have been afraid the sudden news had been too much for her. 'Come,
+come, Polly, this will never do,' he said kindly; 'you must set about
+getting some clothes put up in a bundle, and come away back with me.
+Father is very impatient to see his little Polly, I can tell you!'
+
+"'Polly again! it's always Polly!" said her step-mother. 'I don't
+believe he cares a pin about me and my children so long as these two are
+all right.'
+
+"Uncle John spoke to her very sensibly, as I thought, telling her that
+her husband's children ought to be as dear to her as her own, for his
+sake, and that a jealous disposition often led to much misery; but I
+don't think it made much impression upon her: and I was very glad when
+Polly appeared ready to start, with her clothes and some for her father
+also, tied up in a little bundle.
+
+"Some days after, uncle kindly took me to spend the day with Vea. I was
+delighted to find that Patrick had been removed to Mrs. Berkley's, and
+had stood the journey very well. He had been carried on a stretcher by
+some of the fishermen; and they had borne him along so gently that
+Patrick declared he had never felt the least motion, and thought he had
+been lying on his bed all the time.
+
+"'I should like to get some flowers so much,' said Vea, after I had
+arrived. 'Patrick is so fond of flowers; but he likes the wild ones
+best. He says the hot-house ones smell oppressively, but the wild ones
+make him comfortable.'
+
+"'Then why can't we get him some?' I inquired.
+
+"'Aunt doesn't like us to go to the wood by ourselves; and Natilie is
+engaged to-day,' replied Vea.
+
+"'I'll tell you how we will manage it,' I replied, laughing. 'We will
+ask uncle to go with us.'
+
+"'But do you think he will go with us?' said Vea eagerly.
+
+"'Oh yes, I think he will--I am sure of it, almost,' I said; 'because I
+heard your aunt telling him she had some important letters to write,
+and he said he would take a walk in the garden till she was done.'
+
+"Uncle John was very kind, and consented to go with us; and not only so,
+but took us to the best places, and while we filled our baskets sat
+reading beside us. Then, when we had picked enough, he told us stories
+while we rested; and we were very happy. Something he said about a boy
+he once knew made Vea think of Patrick, for she exclaimed, quite
+suddenly,--'Oh! do you know, sir, we have found Patrick out at last!
+When he was lying at the cottage, there were so many poor people came to
+ask for him, that even aunt became interested; and she made inquiries,
+and we found that Patrick was in the habit of helping them in some way
+or other. One old woman told us he actually drew all the stock of
+drift-wood she has at her cottage, and piled it up there for her.'
+
+"'But how did he manage to do it without you finding him out?' said
+Uncle John.
+
+"'Oh, he rose and went out very early in the morning,' replied Vea. 'The
+servants were often complaining of the state of his boots; so, in case
+they would find him out, he used to leave them in the garden and go
+without his stockings. And do you know, sir, he was telling me such a
+sad story about that poor woman, and the reason why he helped her. She
+has lost her husband and three sons; and then her only child, a little
+girl, was drowned one day looking for drift-wood on the sea-shore.'
+
+[Illustration: GATHERING WILD FLOWERS.]
+
+"'That will be Widow Martin then, I suppose!' said my uncle. 'Her story
+was indeed a sad one.--I am very glad to hear such good accounts of my
+young friend Patrick.'
+
+"'And I am glad about it too, sir,' said Vea. 'Aunt Mary will be so
+pleased; but do you know, I am afraid Alfred has been the bad boy all
+the time, for since Patrick has been ill he is never done falling into
+disgrace. Aunt was seriously angry with him; and I overheard Patrick
+saying, "You see, Alfred, I often told you, you would be found out in
+the end; I couldn't always take the blame to screen you, so you had
+better give it up." Isn't Patrick a strange boy, sir?'
+
+"It was a happy day for little Vea when her brother Patrick was able to
+be wheeled out, by his faithful friend Dick, in the chair his aunt got
+for the purpose; and I need not say that Patrick enjoyed it very much. I
+was invited to spend a week with them then, and as the weather was
+indeed beautiful, we were constantly in the open air. Patrick had always
+been fond of gardening, and it vexed him to see how his flowers had
+been neglected during his illness. 'Never mind,' said Dick; 'I bean't
+much of a gardener, but I'll do my best to set it all to rights, and I'm
+sure the young ladies there will lend a hand.'
+
+[Illustration: DICK TRYING HIS HAND AT GARDENING.]
+
+"While Dick dug the ground, Vea and Alfred and I arranged the flowers,
+much to the satisfaction of every one; and even Alfred, who was not very
+fond of work, said these busy days were the happiest he had ever spent.
+
+"The day before I left my kind friends, Uncle John came over with a
+letter from home, saying that I was to return there immediately.
+
+"'Oh dear; I am so sorry,' said Vea. 'I was hoping, sir, she might be
+allowed to stay for ever so long--at anyrate till all our gardens were
+finished.'
+
+"'Ah! but there is a pleasant surprise awaiting Miss Lily there,' said
+my uncle, laughing. 'I am almost certain that even the lovely gardens
+will be quite forgotten when she sees what it is.'
+
+"'A pleasant surprise, uncle!' I exclaimed. 'What is it?--do tell me,
+please!'
+
+"'You can't be told till you reach home,' said my uncle, laughing; 'I am
+bound over to secrecy.' And though I over and over again tried to get
+him to tell me, he only laughed, as he replied, 'All in good time, Lily;
+you wouldn't have me break my promise, surely.'
+
+"Dolly was so sorry to part with me, and I was so sorry to leave her,
+that while we were packing my clothes we cried over the trunk.
+
+"'I wouldn't mind your going, miss,' said Dolly, 'if I thought you would
+remember me sometimes; but I'm thinking, now that there is a new---- Oh
+dear, dear,' she cried; 'I was just about to let the cat out of the bag,
+and what would your uncle have said to that, I wonder!'
+
+"It was plain now that Dolly knew of the pleasant surprise that was
+waiting for me at home, and the thought of it helped me to be less sorry
+to part with her and kind Uncle John and all the pleasant things at the
+rectory. All the way home I kept thinking what it could be. A new doll,
+perhaps, that grandmamma was to send for my birth-day present; but then
+my birth-day did not come for weeks yet. A work-box lined with
+rose-pink, perhaps; but that was to arrive when my sampler was
+finished--and oh, what a large piece was still to be sewed. I tired
+myself trying to think, and at last gave it up in despair.
+
+"Of all the things I had thought of, it never came into my head to expect
+a new baby-sister; but so it was. When I entered the parlour, and was
+rushing up to fling myself into my mother's arms, what was my surprise
+to find a lovely baby--the very thing I had been wishing for--yes,
+actually a baby-sister.
+
+[Illustration: MY BABY-SISTER.]
+
+"I don't think I was ever so happy in my life as at that moment, when I
+was allowed to take the baby in my lap and examine her tiny fingers and
+toes; and when she smiled in my face, and seemed to be pleased with her
+big sister, I actually cried, I was so happy. While I was sitting
+holding baby in this way, my father returned home with Willie, my
+brother, and such fun and laughing we had, to be sure! But I must own I
+did feel a little vexed when papa one day said to me, a few weeks after
+I had returned home, 'Well, Lily, now that you have got such a fat baby
+sister to carry about, you will have to lay aside your dolls.'
+
+"I was very sorry, for I loved my dolls exceedingly; they had been my
+dear companions and friends for so long. But I knew papa scarcely
+approved of me playing so much with them, and fancied I might be more
+usefully employed. I took out my last new doll, Eva, for a walk that
+afternoon, feeling somehow that she must be laid away in a drawer till
+baby grew up, when she should have her to be her faithful companion.
+Stepping out at the side gate into the lane to look for Willie, who had
+gone to the post, I found an old woman sitting down to rest. After
+speaking to her for a minute or two, I discovered, to my great delight,
+that she was the mother of Will Dampier, and the grandmother of Polly.
+She had just come from the Bluff Crag that very day, where she had been
+to see her son; and she told me that the last thing she saw, in looking
+back from the bank above, before turning into the main road, was her son
+with his crab-basket on his back, and Master Patrick Berkley alongside
+of him.
+
+"'Oh, I am so glad to hear this,' I replied; 'that shows Patrick's leg
+must be quite well and strong again. And how are Miss Vea and Alfred?
+did you see them also?"
+
+[Illustration: MEETING POLLY'S GRANDMOTHER.]
+
+"'No, miss,' said the old woman, 'I didn't see them. The young lady and
+her brother have gone to stay with another aunt at some distance off;
+but Master Patrick is to remain with Mrs. Berkley all the winter. I'm
+sure there's more than my son and Polly were glad indeed to hear this,
+for he is a good friend to the poor, and does many a good action to help
+them when he thinks as they are frail.'
+
+"After resting for some time by the kitchen-fire, Polly's grandmother
+went away, not without promising to come in again if ever she was
+passing that way when going to see her son.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"That visit was the beginning of many, and very many pleasant days I
+afterwards spent at the Bluff Crag Rectory. But it is near your bedtime,
+my dears, and I must stop for the present, and send you to bed," said
+Mrs. Lincoln.
+
+"Oh! do tell us some more, mamma," pleaded Robert. "I want you to tell
+us again of those cousins of Vea Berkley's who came from India, and you
+haven't even mentioned their names."
+
+"All in good time, my dears," said Mrs. Lincoln, laughing; "that is only
+the beginning of the Bluff Crag stories. It would never do, you know,
+to have them all told at once. We shall have the story of Vea and her
+cousins another time, never fear;" and with this promise the children
+had to be content, and say "Good-night."
+
+
+[Illustration: THE END.]
+
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committer	Roger Frank <rfrank@pglaf.org>	2025-10-15 01:45:09 -0700
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tree	fa2b4557e79f93f5e64f05c5339cc6fab63667de