THE. STORY -OF.: GIPSY ..JAN;

“Master Jim!” said Nurse, for the fourth time. But
Jim never moved. He was. curled up in the corner-of the
Nursery sofa, reading ‘The Story of Gipsy Jan.” He
had not even. heard Nurse call him: he was quite lost in
his book. The Gipsy, the hero of the story, after search-
ing through towns and_ villages, after many and various
adventures, had found at~last, in a wayside cottage, the
lost child of the lady who had been so kind to his wife,
and who had protected him in his trouble. “Master
Jim!” said Nurse, tapping Jim gently on the shoulder,
*‘however many more times am I to tell you?” Jim
looked up from his book at last. ‘Nurse, wait a minute,”
he said; ‘“‘I do want to know if the little girl remembers.
the Gipsy, and if the people in the cottage let him take
her away. Listen! ‘And the Gipsy knelt down by the
child’s bed, and put his arms round fees -“ Missie,” said
the cottager’s daughter, standing at the foot of the bed,
“do you-—”’” Nurse took the book out of Jim’s. hand.
“You are not to read any more to-night, Master Jim,”

she said. “You must finish the story to-morrow.”