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the bright sun as busy as the bees, and as sportive
as the butterflies that flew around them; some-
times turning over the hay, and sometimes over-
turning each other. As no one could be hurt by
a fall on the hay, the overturns only caused 2
laugh. When the cart was loaded with hay,
Farmer Nye sent a man home with it, while he
led the children by what he called a ‘ short cut,”
through a lane, another field, and an orchard,
home. They were quite in time to sce the milk-
ing again.

This had been a very happy day to the whole
party, and we doubt whether Lucy would not
have preferred her ride in the cart, her two
hours’ merry sport in the hay-field, and her walic
home through the flowery lane and orchard, to
being dressed up among a crowd of gay people,
even though she had heard two or three out of
that crowd say, ‘‘ What a pretty girl Lucy Lovett
is ?”

‘When Saturday—Clara’s hclyday—came, Lucy
and Mary were very desirous to know how she
would cmploy her time; so immediately after
breakfast they went in search of her. They