A JOURNEY AND ITS ENDING.

 

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fancy,” said Floss at last. “We never thought
we should go to auntie’s because poor mamma.
was ill, did we, Carrots?”

“No; we never did,’ said Carrots. ‘ But:
mamma will soon get better, won’t she, Floss,
at that nice warm place?”

“Oh, yes; of course she will,” said Floss.
«But it’s a long way away, Carrots, and I
never thought going to auntie’s would be like:
this.”

“No,” agreed Carrots again ; “ we never did.”

«“T’m so sorry to leave them all, aren’t you,
Carrots?”’ said Floss, her voice trembling a.
little.

“ Yes,” said Carrots; “and, Floss, ’m very
sorry, too, to leave the sea. I never left the.
sea before, you know.”

«But the sea won't miss you,” said Floss ;.
“and poor mamma and nursie and all of them
qzll miss us. That’s what I keep thinking of.”

“When shall we eat our dinner, Floss?’””

  

said Carrots, with an instinct that it would.

be as well to change the subject.