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SIX YEARS OLD. .- Ig

It was a long, flat stretch of sandy shore, going
-on and on for miles just the same. There were
very few trees, and no mountains, not even hills.

In summer a few, just a very few, visitors
used to come to Sandyshore for bathing. They
were always visitors with children; for every
one said it was such a nice safe place for the
little people.

But, safe as it was, it wasn’t till Carrots was
growing quite a big boy, nearly six, I should
think, that Floss and he got leave to go out and
play on the shore by themselves, the thing they
had been longing for ever since they could re-
member.

This was how they did get leave at last.
Nurse was very, very busy one day; really
quite extra busy, for she was arranging and
helping to pack Jack’s things to go to a new
school. Jack was so big now, about sixteen,
that he was going to a kind of college, or
grown-up school, the last he would go to before
entering the army. And there was quite a fuss
in the house. Jack thought himself almost as