109

CHAPTER VIII.
SHOPPING.

Ar the place where Comfort and Lucy had’
found George on the island, the stream looked
like a brook, only it was very large for a brook.
It ran tumbling along among rocks just like a
brook. Lucy found, however, after they had
rode along’a little farther, that it began to change ;
and in a short time it appeared to tum into a
smooth and beautiful river. ‘This was the sheet
of water which Luey had had an occasional
glimpse of, higher up the valley. But now, at a
certain turn of the road, they came suddenly upon
a full view of it.

*¢Q, what a beautiful river!” said Lucy.

«‘That’s the mill-pond,” said Comfort.

‘The mill-pond?” repeated Lucy.

“Yes,” replied Comfort.

“How did they make such a mill-pond?”
asked Lucy.

“ Why, they built a dam across the stream,