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