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DOLLY’S DISGRACE.

CecIL, Dolly, and Florrie Grant lived in a nice old country
house with. a large garden, where they had plenty of room
for all sorts of good games of play. Their father was the
clergyman of the pretty little village in which they lived,
and, as he was generally very busy, the children did not
see much of him. Ever since their mother’s death: they
had been looked after by their governess, Miss Hurst,
whom they all loved very much, but to whom they gave a
good deal of trouble. Cecil had not been well, and so,

instead of going back to school, did his lessons with the

_ two little girls, whom at times he put up-to all kinds of

mischief. This morning, when Miss Hurst came into the —

_ schoolroom, she was very vexed to find amongst the papers

a very ugly. likeness of herself, which Dolly, who was rather
clever at drawing, had made. , Miss Hurst told Dolly that
it was both very rude and unkind to make fun of. other
people; and then Cecil and Florrie said that they were
also to blame for having helped. They had done it thought-

_ lessly, and hoped that Miss Hurst would forgive them all, and

they would remember in future what she had said to them.