love and kindness, and even indulgence, do not
spoil when there is perfect trust and openness,
and when a child at the same time is taught
the one great lesson, that the best happiness
is trying to make others happy too.

They played onthe sands nearly all day,
and Sybil, to her great delight, was covered
up from damage by one of Carrots’s blouses.
The sun came out bright and warm, and they
built the most lovely sand-house you ever saw.

“Td like to live in it always,” said Carrots.

“OQ you funny boy!” said Sybil patron-
izingly; “and what would you do at night,
when it got cold, and perhaps the sea would
come in?”

“ Perhaps the mermaids would take care of
him till the morning,” said Floss.

«What are the mermaids?” asked Sybil.

“Pretty ladies,” said Carrots, “who live at
the bottom of the sea, only they’ve got tails.”

« Then they can’t be pretty,” said Sybil
decidedly ; “not unless their tails are beauti-

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