HAPPY AND SAD.

CHAPTER XI.

HAPPY AND SAD.

’T is gone—and in a merry fit
They run up-stairs in gamesome race.

A moment’s heaviness they feel,
A sadness at the heart.

THE MOTHER’S RETURN.

Ir was very dark in the drive, and Carrots.
crept close to Floss. But Floss felt far less.
afraid of the dark than of the light, when at last
the house came in view, and the brightly lit-up.
windows shone out into the gloom.

“Oh what a big house!” said Floss. “O:
Carrots, how I do wish that little cottage had.
been auntie’s house, even though the door did
open right into the kitchen! Don’t you, Car-

rots?” °

“TI don’t know,” replied Carrots; “auntie:

will be very kind to us, won’t she, Floss?”