102 = “CARROTS.”

 
 

in one of the farmers’ carts, and came in at
the lodge gate just as the carriage with her

 

master and mistress and the young ladies was

 

driving up. They all got out at the big gate,

 

and let the coachman drive round to the stable

 

the back way, and mother came quietly walk-

 

ing up the drive behind them. They were

 

talking seriously about the sermon they had

 

heard, and feeling rather solemn-like, I dare

 

say, when all at once there flew down the

 

drive to meet them the most fearsome-like

  

creature that ever was seen. It was like noth-

 

ing in nature, my mother said, about the size

 

of a large wolf, but with a queer-shaped head

 

and body, — at least they looked queer to them,

 

not knowing what it was, —and not a particle

 

of hair or coat of any kind upon it. It rushed,

 

up to my lady, —that was Miss Janet's mother

 

—and tried to leap upon her; but she shrieked

 

to her husband, and he up with his stick, — he

 

always took a stick about with him, —and was

 

just on the point of giving it a fearful blow,

 

never thinking but what it was one of the