THE FOUR LAWNS,

which they had just been overlooking.
Indeed, the old garden at Fairdown-court
boasted four of these soft lawns, which were
always green, even in the hottest weather,
and being all well kept and prettily situated,
were very much admired by visitors. The
front lawn was the largest. The back lawn
had the great mulberry-tree in the middle
of it. The Church Lawn (the one already
described) was the most sheltered, and the
most frequented by the family; indeed, in
fine weather, it served as an additional
parlour; and tables, chairs, books, and
needle-work, were generally to be found on
the Church Lawn in summer-days. But
the lawn I always liked best, and the one
which was little Fanny’s favourite, because
her aunts Marianne and Julia preferred to
sit there, in the warmest weather, was the
Brook Lawn; the one on which Fanny and
Arthur now descended by the Fairy Breach
in the churchyard wall. The Brook Lawn
was of an irregular shape, and stretched

along the bank of a clear little stream, the
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