w CHAPTER VI.
A NEW WAY TO THE BLUE MOUNTAINS.

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ay children who were left behind. After
Cowslip left her, Primrose turned on
her other side and went off into a deep
and very heavy sleep. Buttercup also,
on his little hard bed, slumbered with-
out dreaming. It was getting on for
twelve o’clock when Primrose opened
her heavy eyes.

She looked around her with a start,
wondered why the sun was streaming
into the room, and making it so hot, called Cowslip’s name, and
of course received no answer.

Then she slowly got out of bed and looked around her. It
did not take her long to remember what had really happened. This
was the day on which the children were to start on their journey
to the Blue Mountains. Primrose remembered hazily how Cowslip
had come to her hours and hours before, and had said something
about starting without her. Oh, how terrible—if this had really
happened !

Primrose ran with her little bare feet into the other room, where
Buttercup was still sound asleep. :

“Wake up, Bee, darling,” she said—for this was her pet name
for her little brother—‘‘ wake up, wake up! I am awfully afraid that
Clover and Cowslip have gone to the Mountains without us.”
Buttercup rubbed his sleepy eyes and sat up in bed.