HOME AT THE HAVEN.

go round the pond with Uncle Osborne, and, after a
little instruction from him, he said she made a very
good steersman.
 Tea had been waiting long, and the urn had ceased
to boil, so that fresh warm water was wanted, before
the party could make up their minds to moor up
the boat and return to the house. People ate Lucy's
delicious plum-cake, talking all the time about the boat
and praising it, and planning all sorts of things which
were to be done for it, and with it, when all at once
Edward turned to Lucy and said, "Now, do tell us,
Lucy, what was the name you thought of for the boat--
you have never told us yet."
 Lucy blushed very much, and she hesitated-she
could hardly make up her mind to tell them, for she
thought they would think it so silly. At last, she said
that she had thought-indeed, from something Ed-
ward had said, she had almost felt sure-that he was
going to call the boat the Lucy.'"
 Lucy had no sooner said this than Edward quite
wished he had thought of calling it after his sister, and
he said. so-and Captain Osborne also wished that Lucy's
name had been given to the boat; and he did not think
it at all strange or wrong that she should have expected
it. He liked too, very much, that she should have been
so frank in telling them all her thoughts, when it
would have been easy enough to have concealed them.
It was possible, even for Captain Osborne, who had
been all his life a brave sailor, to admire this kind of
courage in a very little girl; and without any one
knowing how it came about, Lucy was presently sitting
on her uncle's knee, with his arm so kindly round her;
and before the evening was over, he remembered that
upstairs he had a most beautifully carved ivory fan,
that he had brought home from India, in one of his