60 Lily and Water-Lily.

white lily that stood hard by under the trees and
watched what Pearl did.

- But Pearl was not thinking of the white lily now ;
no, nor even of the poor little field-mouse, who had
been her constant friend, and who, even now, was
running about under the trees and looking anxiously
at his old companion.

She had seen a new friend, after whose companion-
ship she now hankered sorely. He grew upon the
face of the great cliff beneath whose shadow she sat,
and he was a great tall, splendid tiger-lily, who stood
proudly up among the paler flowers that humbly
surrounded him, and looked out haughtily upon the
world from off the perilous ledge of rock upon which
he had so ambitiously taken root.

Pearl could not see the tiger-lily from where she
sat, and as soon as Ruby was out of sight, and she no
longer feared that he would prevent her from doing
what she wanted, she got up and went across to the
edge of the stream, whence she could look up at the
thing that she coveted.