150 LUCY AMONG THE MOUNTAINS. -

wards the mountains. As they were turning into
this road, Lucy saw a beautiful blue flower, grow-
ing under some rocks.

“O mother!” said she, “see what a beautiful
blue flower !”

“« Yes,” said her mother; “I should like to get
it. We will stop and get it when we come back.
It would wilt and fade away before we get home,
if we take it now.’’

“ But we shall not come back this way,” said
Robert, at the same time stopping Hero. ‘So I
had better get it now.”

Robert jumped out, and brought the flower, and
handed it to Lucy. Then he climbed up into
his seat again, and drove on.

“Which way shall we come home?” asked
Lucy.

“‘Why, we are going round by Emery’s Pond,
and we shall come out by the Valley district, and
so home by the road that leads by my clearing.”

“Where is the Gap that your father spoke of?”
asked Lucy’s mother.

“QO, it’s on here a few miles among the moun-
tains,” replied Robert. “This road leads through
the Gap. Father says it-would not be possible to
make a road here if it were not for this Gap.”

The country grew more and more wild, as they
advanced. The road was very winding, and it
ascended and descended by turns. They were,
however, on the whole, gradually rising, as they
found by observation, every now and then, that they
had a more and more extended view cf the great