30 CAROLINE.

‘The path leading into the woods. The waterfall.

CHAPTER TIL
THE WALK.

WHEN Caroline and the two children passed out from
the garden through the little gate to commence their walk,
Malleville ran on before the rest down the path. This
path led into a thicket, and thence down into a wooded
dell, at the bottom of which Malleville thought she saw
a brook and a little waterfall. So she ran forward to
view the waterfall. Phonny ran after her; Caroline fol-
lowed more slowly. She had seen the place a great many
times.

When Malleville reached the bottom of the descent,
she found quite a brook running across the path, with a
broad plank placed over it on one side, for a bridge.
Above the bridge was the waterfall. The water fell
about three feet down the face of a rock, between two
banks of beautiful green moss.

Malleville stood upon the plank a few minutes to look
at the waterfall, When Caroline came to the spot
Malleville said to her,

“ What makes the water run here so all the time ? ”

“ Why there is a brook,’ said Caroline, “that comes
down here from the hills.”

“ And where does it come from ?” asked Malleville.

“It comes out of the sky, I suppose,” said Caroline.

Caroline meant that the water came from the sky.