20 THE CINDERELLA FROOK.

our Alice, found it out at once. So much for
beauty.

But better than all the rest was Louise
Carl. By the happiest chance in the world,
she was seated next her, and was ever such
a girl as she? So knowing, so funny, so
content with every thing ; and she made such
a parade pointing out the lessons and initiat-
ing the novice into the ways of the school, it
really made her considerably taller.

Little occurred worth remembering that
forenoon, but Alice was observant of every
thing. ‘There was the school-house, an old-
fashioned, ill-arranged affair, dismal enough
at first view, but, in reality, as Louise said,
as pleasant a nook as could. be found. And
the teacher there, in that prim gray gown,
with the buttons up and down in front, look-
Ing so precise, and giving out tasks, and ask-
ing questions, and instructing and reprimand-