Gilbert and Editk's Rid'e. 59

 "Thank you, miss" (another curtsey), "and
will yer be pleased to tell yer ma, as I thank
her very kindly for the shoes and things as
she sent me by Tanner, the other day; they
fit Richard quite nice."
 "Yes, I'll tell her. Good-bye." And off
ran Grace, back through the meadow, and up
the sloping, long gravel walk to the house,
which she reached in time to find Arnold
carrying in tea, and she was obliged to make
great haste to be ready for it.
 Gilbert and Edith had a delightful ride.
They proceeded slowly at first, and chose the
shadiest lanes they could find, on account of
the heat; so they had time and opportunity
for quite a long chat. Gilbert amused his
sister with stories of college life, and she in
return related her school experiences ; it was
hard to say which was most pleased. Gilbert,
at having so interested and attentive a sister,
or Edith, in her "grown up brother making
a companion of her. The country through
which they passed, without possessing any
striking features, was pastoral and pretty, the
view open for many miles, and the distant
villages, with their spires or towers, as the case
might be, rose up here and there in pic-
turesque confusion. The river, too, with its