GOOD NEWS.

Six more weeks for Arthur and Fanny to
stay !

Off they scampered to tell the D;Eyncourt
boys, all three of them, for Martha was
still staying at Fairdown, and ,she had
already learned to dispense with the cere-
mony of dressing to go out—when going
out was only running a little way down a
lane, and through Spring-wood, into the
Rectory garden.

“Holloa! where are you all scamper-
ing?” cried Charlie, who was on the look
out for a particular sort of caterpillar, called
a hop-dog, as they ran past the gate of a
lrop-garden.

“Good news! good news!” shouted the
three; *‘ going to stay till after hopping!”

Down came Charlie, waving his cap on
the top of his butterfly-catcher, and joined
them in their run. When the party were
going across the little hillock in the wood,
Martha got first. She did not see Harry,
who bounced out from among the trees, and

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