AN EXPERIMENT. 167

After a time Mr. Holiday came in; but,
before he came, Rollo and Lucy had for-
gotten all about the needles, and were al-
most asleep upon a sofa. Mr. Holiday’s
coming in aroused them, and they wanted
him to tell them now about fences as he had
promised them. But he said he could not
then, but that they must go to bed so as to
be ready to set out to-morrow on their return,
and perhaps he would tell them something
on that subject then.

So they went to bed, and slept soundly
until morning.