SIX YEARS OLD.

CHAPTER II.

SIX YEARS OLD.

“As for me, J love the sea.
The dear old sea!
Don't you ”
SONG.
I tHInK I said there was nothing very re-
markable about the place where Carrots lived; ©
but, considering it over, I am not quite sure that
you would agree with me. It was near the sea,
for one thing; and ¢hatz is always remarkable, is
it not? How remarkable, how wonderful and

changeful, the sea is, I doubt if any one can tell

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who has not really lived by it; not merely vis-
ited it for a few weeks in the fine summertime,
when it looks so bright and sunny and inviting,
but lived by it through autumn and winter too,
through days when it looks so dull and leaden,.
that one can hardly believe it will ever be smil-