168 THE COUSINS,

CHAPTER X.
VANITY A BAD GUIDE.

You will not doubt that Lucy and Mary were
often at their bower. When Clara was at home,
she delighted in being there with them. They
would swing cach other a while, and then they
would either play with their dolls, dressing them,
and taking them to visit each other, or they
would get up a little feast of different fruits,
making leaves of various sizes their dishes and
plates, cups and saucers. Sometimes they would
entertain cach other with stories which they had
either read or heard, and sometimes with relat-
ing circumstances which had happened to them-
selves, or describing places which they had seen,
or persons with whom they had associated. Clara
would tell of the changes which the different