“ CARROTS.”

CHAPTER IX.
SYBIL.

“The children crowned themselves with wishes,

And every wish came true,”

CROWNS FOR CHILDREN.

Bur it is not always, or even often, that
wishes “come true,’ is it, children? Or if
they do come true, it is in a different way ;
so different that they hardly seem the same.
Like the little old woman in the ballad, who
turned herself about, and wondered and puz-
zled, but couldn’t make out if she was herself
or not, we stare at our fulfilled wishes and
examine them on every side, but in their
altered dress — so different from, and very
seldom, if ever, as pretty as that which they
wore in our imagination — we cannot believe
that they are themselves!

Do you remember the fancies that Carrots