HALCYO0T DAYS.

tempered, and to do her duty in everything, and
Emma does not-that is the difference,-but Emma is
to be pitied, for Miss Brooks does not teach her as
Miss Forster teaches us!"
 And how does Miss Forster teach you?" inquired
William.
 "By gentleness and good-temper," replied Louisa,
" one can't help doing what she wishes; but Emma
says, that when Miss Brooks shakes her for not knowing
her lesson, it makes her hate her so, that she would
suffer anything rather than do what she wants."
 "I should not like that feeling at all," remarked
William.
 "Oh, it is a dreadful one; I used to have it
sometimes before Miss Forster came to us," said
Louisa.
 "'You will like Miss Forster so much, William,"
observed Minnie, she talks so pleasantly! do come
out with us this afternoon."
 "Well, we'll see I" replied her brother. Now I
must look after Toby-I hope he is not too wild to
let me get on his back."
 To the girls' great joy, William was waiting for
them when their afternoon school duties were over,
but instead of a walk, Miss Forster proposed a trip
down the river, William and Dick to be\the rowers.
The children were delighted with the idea, and Miss
Forster accordingly proceeded with Minnie and Louisa,
to the little landing-place near the bridge, while William
ran to fetch Dick, and to bring the boat round from the
old thatched boat-house that was built across a little
cove at one corner of the park.
 It was a very pleasant row-they glided smoothly
on under the shade of the high old trees that grew
along the banks, now among beds of water-lilies, now