3 BATTLES OF THE BIBLE.

what it was; but it is before my eyes as vividly as if
at this moment I were there. I see the beech hedge
round his garden: how neatly cut it always was. I
see the little wicket gate, and the two gean trees that
used to bear so plentifully. I see the strawberry beds
that we used often to look-at so wistfully ; and I think
I see him yet, kind old man, stooping down to search
for a ripe one. Little did we think then, in our heed-
less healthfulness, what a labour that stooping was to
him. I can see his bush of moss roses—the favourite
bush it was in all his garden; often I fain would have
taken one, but I would not steal from grandfather—not
that he would have been angry, but he would have
been vexed ; and vexed I could not bear to see him.
The first time that I went to my grandfather’s cottage
was early in summer. My two brothers and I had been
ill with hooping cough for some months, and the doctor
said it would not go quite away till we had change of air.
When George heard this, he at once asked to be allowed
to go to grandfather’s, for he had been there before, and
liked it so much. Our father agreed that he should go,
and said that he thought Johnnie too might go, and per-
haps I. But my mother said that would not do; it
might be very well for the boys, but that I, being a girl,
could not go to stay at a place where there was no one
to look after me. I thought that having no one to look
after me would be the very delight of it, and I was
sadly disappointed when I heard my mother say that she
could not allow me to go. Yet I did not say anything