68 HOME AGAIN.

she exclaimed, how everything is changed since
I left home. What are the sheep doing there ?-
see! Mr. Bevan, they are in the cows' paddock."
 "Yes, my dear, we have had to bring them






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 THE SHEEP-FOLD.

down there to look the better after them during
winter; we've been very busy, you see, during
your absence. There's a friend of yours, if not
two of them, on the look-out for you."
 This proved to be Dick, one of the farm men,
and his little daughter Kate, who had been over tc
the farm on some errand, and who now returned
Bertha's wave of the hand with interest. Oh,
how nice it will be to have Kate to play with
once more," said Bertha; she was always such
a dear, good girl, and so obliging."