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HAPPY AND SAD. 197

some of those stories you're going to get
bounded up into a book some day? They
would like ¢haz.”

Floss hardly felt as if she could care to hear
any stories, however pretty. But she did not
like to disappoint kind auntie by saying so,
especially when auntie told her she really
wanted to know if she and Carrots liked her
stories, as it would help her to judge if other
children would care for them when they were
“bounded up into a book.”

So the next day auntie read them some, and
they talked them over, and got quite interested
in them. Fortunately she did not read them
all that day ; for the next day there was still
more need of something to distract the chil-
dren’s sorrowful thoughts, as the looked-for
letter did not come. Auntie would have liked
to cheer the children by reminding them of
the old sayings that “ No news is good news,”
and “It is ill news which flies fast;” but she
dared not, for her own heart was very heavy

with anxiety. And she was very glad to see

  
  
    

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