134 ‘THE SILVER LAKE STORIES.

convince her of the folly of these idle
fancies. Her imagination caused her
continually to see strange sights, and
to hear extraordinary sounds ; although
‘she exposed herself to be turned into
ridicule, by her older brothers and
sisters, when they discovered that the
giant who had frightened her was @
tree; and that the horrible groans she
had heard were only the noise of a win-
dow, or of a shutter during a stormy
night. She continued ever to be tor-
mented by these silly fears, and had
made poor little Harry as fearful as
herself.

Every time she found herself alone,