The Long Vacation

will their

a flower,

these, a

together.-IS

of his newspaper. Here, then, it was that the tall, grey-haired, white-moustached General Mohun beheld, emerging on the platform, a slight figure in a grey suit, bag in hand, ac

od! I am gla

use you were so good as to mention for my sist

rmer gained the day, the more easily because there was an assurance that the nephew who slept at Miss Mohun's for the sake of his day-s

guillemot

stage," said his

neral, "but nothing seems to come amiss to F

Merrifield. Miss Mohun, the sister who made a home for the General, had looked out the house that Lance had come to inspect. As it was nearly half-pa

honours one only gets once or twice in one's

as, "Have you any good fossils about you?" in a tone as if he doubted whether so

father said it was a fossil sea-urch

n for those mere recent things," said Fergus, in a pre-Adamite tone, "but m

imated face, while Fergus, with an air of patronage, vouched for the honesty

istasteful to him. Many more men of family were in the like position with himself than had been the case when his

choice of an emissary, but her heart was won when she found Mr. Underwood as deep in the voluntary school struggle as she could be. Her brother held up his han

not to molest

ok at other people's parishes more

from the cliff-path, the two bounded in-little Felix with the brightest of eyes and ros

in the sand. It's too splendid! And they ought to have spines. When they ar

erry's house, sir? Miss Mohun, may I t

peration, "but he has not got his mind opened to stratification, and only cares

tle Felix's good manners and bright intelligence about bird, beast, and fish, as to volunteer to conduct him to

thank

e a real General out of the wars' was one great delight in coming here, though I believe he would have been no more surp

and most delicious of places, all bones and stones, where his father must come and see what Fergus thought was a megatherium's tooth

ractical details, Miss Mohun was struck by the contrast between her companion's business promptness and the rapt, musing look she had seen when she came on him listening to the measured cadence of the waves upon the cliffs, and the reverberations i

n?" she said to herself. "Yet he looks too strong and happy fo

eds, scales, purses, and cuttle-fish's backbones for the delectation of his sisters. Above all, he was eloquent on the shell of a lacemaker crab, all over prickles, which he had seen hanging in the

Ici on parle Francais' in the window, and people han

ulsion of the school officer. She is plainly half a foreigner, and when Mr. Flight got up those thea

brother. "She was a f

he not only met the father and son at early matins, but found that they had been out for two hours enj

ed the tender-hearted little fellow.

as Fergus translated it." Addi

ural history book in the shop," said Felix. "We must not look at i

" said his fat

them all," pleaded the boy, "and pagurus was

caresses. I should think he was

rance so early in the

want 'baccy at all hours. She was much amazed at our request, and called her mother, who came out in remarkable dishabille, and is plainly foreign. I can't think where I hav

ble house not far from St. Andrew's Church, and studied the accomm