eA GREAT ‘DISCOVERY.

pirates. The children found, besides, a deal table and some forms, an old
telescope, and a lantern; also some barrels, but, unfortunately, they were
not full of gold and silver and precious stones, but chokefull of emptiness.

‘““ Bow-wow-wow! bow-wow-wow!” barked Master Toby again, and this
time it was because he saw half-a-dozen boats being rowed hastily towards
the cliff.

«“ Hurrah!” shouted Bob, ‘‘ here comes Nurse, and Mother, too! ”

And, indeed, it was— Cousin Fanny in one boat, and Nurse in another,
and Bob’s Father in another, all three of them with faces as white as the
chalk-cliffs.

I can’t tell you how many hugs and kisses and scoldings there were, but
I am sure the children deserved a good many scoldings for having strayed
away and frightened everybody so much.

The one person who neither got kissed nor scolded was Toby, and, as a
matter of fact, he ought to have been praised for his part in the proceedings.

When Sybil got home she told her Mother about the great discovery; and
to this day, if you went down to that seaside place, you would be sure to be
shown by some one to the cliff, which everybody knows now as the “ Pirates’

Cave.”