98 LUCY AMONG THE MOUNTAINS.

he led the horse up to the door, Lucy holding the
reins, and making believe drive.

Robert fastened the horse to a post, and Lucy
and Eben, thinking that they would not get out
until they were obliged to, sat still. Presently
Comfort came to the door in a different dress
from the one which she had worn when she was
spinning, and with her bonnet on.

“ Comfort,” said Lucy, “are you going away
in this wagon ?”

* Yes,” replied Comfort.

‘Who is going to drive you?” asked Lucy.

“T am going to drive myself,” replied Com-
fort.
‘¢ Where are you going?” said Lucy.

*T’'m going a-shopping,” said Comfort.

“ A-shopping?” said Lucy; “I don’t see
where you can go a-shopping. Only I wish,”
she added, after pausing a moment, “that my
* mother would let me go with you,’-——~

« Well,” said Comfort, “go and ask her.”

Comfort helped Lucy down out of the wagon,
and she ran in to ask her mother. As she went
in, Comfort said, —

“Tell her that I should like to have you go
very much.”

Lucy came back in a moment, leading her