i: 6 Autumn Days.

times nine might be, and that was
my great difficulty.

You know, don’t you ? how the
things that “you do so want to
say” will come into your head just
when you ought to be very silent
and busy! It’s very odd; but even
now that I am old enough to know
better, I never want so much to
talk as just when I ought to be
quiet. I wonder how itis? Any-
how, it seemed quite impossible to
hold one’s tongue that afternoon.
Alick was as busy and quiet as
could be, working out a hard sum
on his slate, but even he looked up
when Lottie started that wonderful