HOM. AT THE HAVEN.

the operation of letting down the boat. It took half-
an-hour before this was managed-the gardener and
Jack, Captain Osborne and Edward, all hard at work,
very hot and very eager. Quite safely, however, and,
without any damage to it, the little boat was lowered
to the ground, and those who had never seen it before
thought it most beautifully and cleverly made. Edward
was very delighted, and very impatient to see it
launched upon the pond. He could hardly, in fact,
make up his mind to lose sight of it, when his uncle
proposed its being carried into an outhouse and left
for the night. They had, however, to discuss together
the important point of what colour it was to be painted,
and the still more important point to settle of what it
was to be called. Black outside with the pitch of
course it would be, so it was thought that a bright
green inside, with lines of white, would give it a light
and pretty effect; but as to the name-that was most
difficult to settle. Uncle Osborne did not care about
the name, and said Edward might call it what he
liked, and Mrs. Osborne could not suggest one.
'Edward and Lucy tried the sound of several, when all
at once Edward declared that he had thought of the
best name in the world, and was sure everybody would
think so too; but as Uncle Osborne had said he might
choose the name, he would not tell what he had fixed
on until the painter had painted it in white letters at
the stern. He made Lucy promise that she would not
go to look at the boat again until it was painted, and
ready for launching, because Edward was certain she
would like the name, and wanted to surprise her; and
Lucy never once tried to make him tell her what he
had fixed on, and never even tried to guess it. She
told her mother, in fact, the next day, that she was
nearly sure she knew what it was to be.