24 CAROLINE.

 

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Malleville’s difficulty. Caroline proposes to have some raspberries.

 

“TI suppose it means Beechnut, and now I will put it
on the safe.”

So saying, she took up the letter, carried it to the safe,
and deposited it there where Caroline said her father
always put his letters, when he had written them. Hav-
ing done this, Malleville ran off into the garden again, to
find Caroline and Phonny.

She found them walking along together, in a pleasant
path with apple-trees and pear-trees on either side, some
growing by themselves and some trained on trellises.
Malleville- walked along with them. Presently they came
to a little grass plat, with a summer-house beyond it.
The summer-house was almost enveloped in shrabbery.

Caroline led the children into the summer-house, and
there they all sat down upon a bench.

“T wish the apples and pears were ripe,” said Caroline,
“and then I would give you some.”

“Yes,” said Malleville, “and you promised us an.apple.”

“True,” said Caroline, “but they are not ripe yet.
There are plenty of raspberries, however, if you would

like some.”
Phonny and Malleville both said that they should

like some raspberries very much.

So Caroline led them back to where the old gardener
was at work.

“Uncle Ben,” said she, “I wish you would go mto the
house and bring me out alittle sugar and cream. We are
going to have some raspberries.”

«And Malleville,” continued Caroline, “ you may go
with him and bring us out a tm mug to put the rasp-
berries in when we are gathering them.”

So Malleville and Uncle Ben went away together, and