THE END OF THE PARTY. 95

 

Pouring out tea. Caroline. Susan, The silver vessels.

placed the cups upon Susan’s waiter, and Susan carried
them around the room to ‘the company. When Susan
came to the great table, she put the cups on it herself for
each child, instead of allowing the children themselves
to attempt to take them. She, however, put the cream-
pitcher and the sugar-bowl upon the table, and allowed
each one of the children to help herself to cream and
sugar as she pleased. Each one, after thus helping
herself, passed the sugar-bowl and the cream-~-pitcher
to her next neighbour, and thus these articles moved
from one guest to another all around the table, and then
Susan put them on her waiter again and took them
away.

The children were very much pleased with this ar-
rangement, partly because it was of itself a great plea-
sure to them to be allowed to help themselves to cream
and sugar, particularly to such rich cream and such white
sugar as they were provided with on this occasion; but
more especially from the fact that the pitcher and bowl
which they used were of silver, and there were many of
the children who had never seen such large vessels of
silver before.

There was one child in the party who was even still
younger than the children who had seats at the large
table—too young in fact to sit with them there. She was
with her sister at a small work-table in a corner of the
room, very near to where Livingston and Wallace were
sitting. Livingston looked at her, and recollected that
it was the same child that he had seen Caroline lift up
upon the sun-dial. Her sister’s name was Anne.

Livingston asked the child what her name was, but the
little girl looked afraid and did not answer.