Wych Hazel

was after sundown; still, bright, sweet, and fair, as after sundown in June can be. The sky all aglow still with cooler lights; in the depth of the hollow the morsel of a lake

uld have nothing more. Guardian and ward were alone. The stillness of

eeking your fortune? I a

e so far beyond my expectations, that I am

rst setting out! But what do you think of the tra

train,

ought of it. Answer stra

od child of me,' she answered, with a half l

ft behind, child;

Wych Hazel. 'Dr. M

ay behind. Nobody

sion-Wych could not tell what sort of an expression, it was so compli

med very ready to give it up. I ha

I am to guard you fr

night- errant that starts up?' said the girl, in an a

y safe at Dr. Maryland's. And much better off than in this

by "enemies," just

s, 'that "a cat may look at a king." And no doubt it is a queen's

are dangerous. I am not much

ow many of your grim

ee this

r then they will have full occupa

you know that the cat gets within spring

mouse. Pray, how many fierce, soft-pawed, sharp-c

d Mr. Falkirk with

ome upon you s

y, the way she la

ith whiskers, sir-my kind me

, in your judgment,

t no lion. Mr. Rollo ca

?' (dryl

xpression, sir, but did

enstone, will come to Chickaree this Summer for th

Morton will, for his home i

nd a good deal of the Summer at his aunt's, Mrs.

like yourself to-day. Are all

Falkirk, 'most men

mouse in t

en went cheerfully on. 'I know, Mr. Falkirk, I shall depend upon you! We

ych, when I take such

looking-so! And the next with eyes like mill wheels-so! And the next, with eyes

ind. A woman's understanding, I have freq

e messengers of light came stealing through every crack and knot hole of the mill, and a many-toed Dork

fectly still, disturbed only by the dip of a king- fisher or the spring of a trout. She stood there musing over the last day and the last week, starting various profound questions, but not stopping to run them down,-then went meandering back to the mill

be ground and the people would be along for it. So the mill became no longer a place of rest, and Miss Hazel and her guardian were driven out into the woods by the rumble and dust and jar of machinery. Do what they would, it was a long morning to twelve o'clock; when the mill ceased its rumble and the miller went home to his dinner, and

did my best; but it is thirty miles ins

vious and u

all night long. Being dependent on other people's resource

have you brough

gon for the trunks. To get anything else would hav

inner-time in the mill. Wh

and a littl

from a great basket that had come in the rockaway. All this was done, and order given at the same time to other matters, with the light-handed promptitude

t night; and how many yesterday morning?-A

ght us!' said Mr. Falkirk, who main

t up very early this morning to make that pie. I told them I had left some friends in distress; and Primrose and

was the impersonation of gay activity as long as there was anything to do; and then he subsided into ease- taking. The smoke of a cigar did not indeed offend Miss Kennedy's mill-door;

hile, that if it had been any other one of her new feline friends, she would have put her little hand into the business and the basket with pleasant effect. So she sat still and watched him,-giving a bit of a smile now and then indeed to his direct remarks, but as often only a fuller look of the brown eyes. Since the gentleman had been under the tree she had been idly busy with her own thoughts, having sketched herself tired in the morning. "Prim" she recognized