106 ~=Lucy AMONG THE MOUNTAINS.

down from above, guiding her slab along by a
little slender pole.

_“O boys!” said Comfort, when she saw them,
“ig this little fellow your brother ?”

“Yes,” said one of the boys, “he is my
brother.”

“We couldn’t think how he came here,” said
Comfort.

“Why, we were fishing,” said the boy, “and
we wanted to go down and just try a new place;
and we told him we’d come back for him ina
few minutes, if we found a good place.”

“Q,” said Comfort, “I was just getting this
slab, to help him‘off.”
| What did you want the slab for?” said

the boy.

“So as to get over where he is,” said Comfort.

€Q, there’s no need of any slab,” said the
boy. And so, without saying any thing more,
he stepped across from one stone to another, as
easily as if he had walked along the shore. The
other boy followed him, and one of them helped
George to the shore, and the other took up a
small string of fishes, which was lying in a crevice
of the rocks, where Lucy had not seen them.

* You’ve caught some fishes, then,” said Com-
fort.