Cricket at the Seashore

fter breakfast. "I'm wild to get behind Mopsie and Charcoal again," for

rise the family with what she felt sure would be the result of her mining explorations,-the

o the little cart, that was getting to be close quar

r shoulder, expecting sugar; "isn't it lovely to have him again! But, Cricket, don't you think he is r

suggested Auntie Jean, laughing. "Unless you put a brick on your head,

s, Helen and I are going to have the p

my legs. I don't want them to get so long that I can't ride Mopsie.

y gr

t as them little tikes can

arted the little cavalcade, with Cricket driving, because she was the smallest, and could perch up on the others' knees,

ush, intersected in every direction with roads and lanes, and one can

nce there was no one to be disturbed, when suddenly one wheel went over a big stone, which

hing, and in a twinkling down came one side of the cart, while the wheel lay on the ground. The

may. How should they get the car

ty miles from home,"

t's all. You see we've been driving around so much that it seems longer, but it's not really far. This lane leads out on to the Bainbridge road

me lumbering up around

surveying the wreck

he question is, can we ge

oken, and getting it

ed that individual, who had a h

t side, so it will run on the other wheel as the ponies draw it, and Cricket can

ward. This worked very well. Then Edna and Eunice armed themselves with sticks and

Eunice. "We start out in sta

slaves, a captive of war, and you can be Zenobia, Eunice, and you're her daughter, Edna, coming into Rome at the head of my procession after you're conquered. You go ahead singing 'Hail to the Chief.' That's it;

d Eunice, after one or two attempts at the tune.

we're coming to. This is the way that 'Hail to t

tune to save her life. Like a certain modern heroine, she could not even keep the shape of the tune. Consequently, unless the g

hter. Edna sang like a little woodthrush, a

goes up when it should go down, and down when you ought

bject. She loved music so dearly, that she never could understand why sh

the President," she remarked, with dignity. "Anyway, if

and Edna piped up in a gay little voice, that startled the birds overhead, and presently

," said one of them, peering t

he "triumphant procession" halted at th

bother. Don't call them." But the boys needed no calling, and so she ad

Eunice are Zenobia and her daughter. They're to march in front, singing, and Billy is one of my captives who carries my chariot because the whe

putting down his side of the chariot, and mopping off his face with his red b

There, now, Zenobia and her daughter are almost out of sight. Put your eggs and things in th

ng up the side of the demoralized cha

t wheels before you start," said Archie, finally. "It would be inconvenient to have a w

ones. I captured a couple of pretty fair looking slaves, a little while ago, that I'm thinking wi

t me in a dungeon. See here, emperor, next time you break down, please do it within easy reach of your ancestra

asked the emperor, sympathizingly, as they turned

slaves can manage

acksmith shop is not far down the road. We'll leave the cart

rt and wheel left for repairs. Cricket mounted Mopsie, with the boys walking beside her, whi

, big and strong of his age, and Cricket thought him the nicest boy in the world. She was not nearly so fond of Archie, who was a year younger than Will. He teased her more,

at the gate, wit

d, children?" she

lost the cart-wheel off, that's all. It was real fun comi

ady," said auntie, la

LLS HIS STORY