eA GREAT “DISCOVERY.

‘“We won't be long, Nurse,” cried the children, as away they ran, skipping
over the rocks, laughing and shouting, as merry as merry can be, with Toby
after them, while Nurse sat
at her work and waited for
them to come back.

They filled a basket with
small crabs and all sorts of
seaweed, and enjoyed them-
selves so much that they
quite forgot the time, and
that poor Nurse was wait-

ing for them quite a long
way off; for, in their thought-
-lessness, they had wandered
far along the coast.
“Hulloa! Hurrah!”
suddenly shouted Bob, who
was some distance ahead
of the other two: “Hur-
rah! here’s a cave; such a
beauty! Come on, I say,
and let’s play at pirates,
and I'll be the Pirate King.”
So they played at pirates
in the beautiful cave, and
made a throne for their
king out of the silver sand,
until they suddenly remem-
bered that it was time for
them to be returning. So
they scampered back to the
mouth of the cave, and there
stopped. Stopped, because
it was impossible to go any
further. Stopped, because
the tide had come in, and there wasn’t an inch of sand for them to walk upon,