110 BRAGGADOCIO.

Bessie turned her eyes in the direction that
Ada pointed, and saw through the large
windows of plate glass, a great variety of
beautiful flowers.

Ada.—Come Bessie, you must see the green-
house, too.

The orange and lemon trees, filled with ripe
fruit, astonished little Bessie. She said:

“T thought oranges and lemons were always
brought from a far country.”

As Bessie was standing on tip-toe to smell of
one of the fresh lemons, the gardener appeared,
and shouted :

* Clear out, children, clear out ; what business
have you here, meddling with my fruit? Clear
out, or P’ll cut off your noses !”

“ Run, run,” said Ada, quite frightened at
this tremendous threat.

By this time Mr. Cramer had come out on
the piazza, and was looking for Bessie. Ada
ran to him, exclaiming : ,

* Only think, papa! Bessie won’t eat cake
because she isn’t hungry. Isn’t that funfiy ?”

*¢ Bessie is as philosophical as Dr. Franklin
himself,” replied the father.