14 LUCY. AMONG THE MOUNTAINS.

the water. The bottom was’ covered with fine
pebble-stones, so that it was by no means as
smooth as the road which they had been travelling
in: still they got along very well. The water
gradually grew deeper and deeper, until it came
up to the step of the chaise. ‘They were then
in about the middle of the river.

“O father,” said Lucy, “what a wide river!”

“Yes,” said her father, “it is pretty wide, and
I believe [’H stop the horse a minute or two, and
let you look about.”

So he pulled the reins a little, and said, whoa,
and the horse stopped; while Lucy and her
mother looked up and down the river. Lucy
could see better than her mother, for she was
seated in the middle of the chaise, upon. a low
seat. It was a little farther forward than the seat
which her parents were sitting upon, so that she
could see up and down the river very well. The
reflection of the clouds in the water was very
beautiful, and there were trees upon the banks,
hanging over into the stream. ‘The river cames
round between two high hills, a short distance
above where they were, and there were crags,
and precipices, and high mountains, all around.

TI see one house,” said Lucy’s mother.

“Where is it, mother?” said Lucy.