“CARROTS.”

 
  

have been here; but no one could find you, so
they have gone.”

 

“«Elizabetha felt extremely annoyed. She

 

had not seen her friends for some weeks, and

 

had much wished for a visit from them.

«¢«T think it was most ill-natured of none

 
 

of you to look for me in the garden. You

 

might have known I was there, if you had cared

 

to oblige me,” were the words she intended

 

to say, but instead of which were heard the

 

following : —

 

«««T thank you, my dear Maria. Iam sorry

 

to have missed my friends, but it cannot be
helped.”
«« And when Maria, pleased by her gentle-

 
 
 

ness, went on to tell her, that, knowing that

 

her disappointment would be great, and as the

 

Misses Larkyn had been too pressed for time

 

to linger, she had arranged to walk with Eliza-

 

betha the following day to see them, how re-
joiced was Elizabetha that her intended words
of unkindness had not been uttered! “Kind

 
 
 

fairy, I thank thee!” she whispered to herself.