THE SHIPWRECK.

Tury are still very fond of ‘ pretending,” but I don't
think either of them will ever forget the day- when they
pretended their boat was shipwrecked, and it really came -
true. They always played by the lake-side, and they very
often played in an old boat, which was usually fastened
to the stump of a tree. Sometimes they pretended it was
a fairy castle, sometimes it was a mancot-war: and they
both thought it would be great fun when one of them
proposed that they should pretend that the boat had struck
on the rocks, and that they were shipwrecked. They were
so busy pushing-the boat off the rocks that they did not
notice, until it was too late, that the old -boat was. untied,
and that they were pushing themselves away from the
shore. As soon as they did find it. out, of course, they
tried to get back again, but all the trying was. no good.
One of them felt very frightened, and said so, and the
other was frightened too, but he didn’t show it, “He tied
a handkerchief to a broken oar, and waved it -in- the air
Luckily a sailor saw the flag, and came to the rescue; but

I don’t think either of them will ever forget that day.