LUCY AMONG THE MOUNTAINS.

CHAPTER I.
FORDING.

One summer afternoon, in the fall of the year,
just after sunset, there was a chaise coming down
along hill in the woods. The hill was steep, and
there was a rocky precipice on one side of the °
road. There were lofty mountains all around.

In the chaise there were three persons —a gen-
tleman, a lady, and a little girl, The girl was
Rollo’s cousin Lucy. The gentleman and lady
were her father and mother. ‘They were taking
a journey.

The country was very wild and mountainous,
and the road desolate and solitary. If it had been
morning, Lucy would have been pleased with the
cliffs and precipices, and the towering summits of
the mountains. But now, as the sun had gone