EDITH, THE YOUNG TEACHER. 9

pretty village far away from any town.
Here she had lived until now that she
was ten years old; learning her les-
sons under the care of her tender and
watchful mother; playing about the
garden in fine weather with her doll
_and her little dog Tiny; and some-
times rambling over the hills with
aunt Mary, and calling at the cot-
tages of the poor, to take some nice
thing to those who were ill, or to ask
others to send their children to the
Sunday school. ‘This leads me to
speak again of the sabbath morning
when Edith and her mother were sit-
ting in the garden, and aunt Mary
came smiling toward them, with her
Bible and her hymn-book in her
hand.

Edith made room for her on the
garden-seat beside them; but aunt