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a practical turn of mind. “Oh, yes, mamma, I
quite understand.”

“Though nurse is getting old, she has been
so much accustomed to travelling too,’ said
Mrs. Desart ; “and we are going a long way —
to Algeria. Floss, do you know where that
aS

“Over the sea,’ said Floss. “I wish we
might come too, mamma, Carrots and I!” she
exclaimed. “ You will be so far away.”

«But you will be with auntie, and you know
how kind auntie is,” said her mother, forcing
herself to speak cheerfully. “And it is such
a pretty place where auntie lives.”

«Ts the sea there ?” said Carrots.

“No; but the hills are,” answered Mrs. Desart
with a smile. “I am quite sure you will like
it.” And she went on to tell them so much
about auntie’s pretty home, that for a little
they almost forgot everything but the pleasant
part of the change that was to come so soon.

And it did come very soon. It seemed but
a few days from the afternoon they had first