- PRISONERS’ BASE. 89

He will soon .be tired of her, and want
to join us.”

This, however, did not prove to be the
fact. The whole of that playtime our
hero was constant in his attentions to
Juno. It seemed as if he had become
her slave. He followed her wherever she
went; and was afraid to leave her for a
single moment, lest she should betray the
spot where the cherry-stones were con-
cealed. It was a wearisome and degrad-
ing task; and never had he looked for-
ward so anxiously to the hour of play,
as he now did to the ringing of the
school-bell.

His companions kept to their resolution
of leaving him to Juno’s society; and he
had only one interruption during the re-
mainder of the play-hour. Walter had
been for some time amusing himself with

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