46 THE QUESTION.

Jonas looked a minute in the direction
indicated, without answering, when Rollo
suddenly exclaimed,

“T see it, Jonas, right on the larboard
bow.”

Jonas smiled, and then said that he saw it.

“Close by that church,” said Rollo’s
father, ‘‘is the tavern where we want to
stop to-night. Rollo and Lucy may now
get in with us, and you may drive on be-
fore us, and tell them we are coming, so
that they may be getting ready for us.”

This change was accordingly made, and
very soon Jonas was trotting briskly on,
down the long slope before them; the rest
following at a more moderate pace, in the
carryall. They had come out of the forest
at the top of the hill, and now were travel-
ling through a pleasant country of fields,
and orchards, and farm-houses.

‘Jonas has been telling you about ships
and the sea, I suppose,’’ said Rollo’s father.

‘Yes, father; and Lucy and I had a ques-
tion whether it is useful for girls to know
any thing about such things.” ~

“You know girls don’t go to sea,” said
Lucy.