The Long Vacation

rk that's

's dull a

when we m

gs over

every h

f angel

in eac

our feet.-C

old Renville would say," exclaimed Gerald Underwood, looking at a charming w

being has attached himself to Fergus Merrifield, and follows him and Adria

ience o

ian the same, and he really knows an immense deal. They are

ecious

uite to be trusted not to ta

d over his aunt's portfolio, "that's a stun

better for the purpos

on a twopenny halfpenny

a. "You are going to do all sorts of thing

in true nineteenth-century style the hopelessness of subjecting education to what he was please

up of atoms," r

lost if you don't

alize the existence of the classes, instead of feeding the artificial wa

his uncle came in, and ere long a parlour-maid announced luncheon, just as there was a rush into the house. Adrian was caught by his sister, a

ald at the first opportunity,

is aunt. "He can't exist without Lond

ft

re did not seem sufficient scope for his services since the Reverend Underwood had be

terpolated Adrian, "always

thout a man-servan

om the stables to take some of t

aunt and sister, and restraining ones from his uncle. He subsided and submitted to the le

Porter, she kept me i

did not," s

that comes naturally,

one with the hou

oots, who went to be a printer in London, married, and lost his wife; then in our break-up actually ma

oafers with he

f 'The Inspector's Tour'? In

ther the young ladie

to our genius,"

at sort of thing,'" said Anna. "Some of them were mysti

rom that che

They carried it home to their seniors, and of course the ver

cle Lance," said Anna. "Shal

in the pepper and salt I reg

d his uncle, in a

things to the 'Censor' before, which they seem

s, and success in that quarter was a feather in the young man's cap

tive air to us," said Mrs.

ie," said Gerald, "and here am I come to do your b

there was something in his eyes and smile that conveyed to her a dread th

s coming," vol

akes the cause of Christian education everywhere his own, and is coming down to see what he can

on the audience?" said Gerald.

lic use," said Mrs. Grinstead. "B

It never came o

id Adrian. "I would have

it was a failure

mpest', wasn't

exclaimed Mr

a wren to an eag

ast winter. The authors adap

uthors

Bill, with Uncle Lance supplying or adapting

ut in Anna, "and somehow I don't th

on amore, though we could not put it of

made out of Kit's white bear's skin, and he lived in a desert island, where there was a shipwre

a desert

o let there be savages. It would be such a l

n induc

rightened them all with squibs and crackers and fog-horns, till some

' through that version you

was awful rot

! Excuse me, Cherie

pains, so they beg to revert to 'Robin Hood'. However, I should like to see it well got up for once, if only

ould not act here in public. However, we will

performers struck off. F

vages and wreckers is not more remarkable than the 'sti

be any amount of Scottish songs. Prospero is an old Highland chief, who has been set adrift with his daughter-Francie Vande

ake Ariel an electric te

f Vale Leston was forbidden, and so was the

the wreckers

ef in league with the Whigs) by the leg, while the exiled fellow was Jacobite, so as to have the songs dear to the feminine mind. They get wrecked on the island, a

wasn't

up before Christmas,"

nt, whose illness had t

d woman said when her husband did not die before the funeral

gone, I may be allowed a glass of bee

let him come on any other t

he was never to see a horse?

unreason, but consider

to make him indu

I mean to take the matter up when I

eign ancestry, and Anna proposed a ride to Cli

came with you the year we ha

fe. Do you know Jasper Merrifield?

to look for pretty stones and young ferns to make little rockeries for the sale of work. 'The Tempest' was propounded, and received with ac

ery raree-show," especially for an object that she did not care about. None of them knew how far it

ever knows where to have him. Socia

r?" asked

lieve he will dawdle and dream al

he is w

dust off his photographic glasses. "Why, he has a lo

ve," said