‘“ CARROTS.”

say would persuade her that se had nothing
to do with the ending, that she had just told

 
 
   

it as it really happened !

   

Zam telling you the story of Floss and Car-

   

rots as it really happened too, and I am so.
glad that it—the story of this part of their
young lives, that is to say—ends happily too.
Their mother did get better, wonderfully bet
ter, and was able to come back to England in

 
   
   
   
   
 

the spring, looking stronger than for many years.
To England, but not to Sandyshore. Captain.
Desart got another appointment much farther

 
 
    
 

south, where the climate was milder and better,
and the winters not to be dreaded for a delicate:

person. So they all left the Cove House.

 
   
    

Their new home was of course by the sea.

   

too; but Carrots never would allow that it was.

   

the same sea. His own old sea stayed behind.
at Sandyshore; though if he were to go to look.
for it there now I doubt if he would find it.
When old friends once get away into the coun-
try of long ago, they are hard to find again; we
learn to doubt if they are to be found anywhere:

except in their own corners of our memory.

 
     
   
   
   
   
   

   
 

ERR LAL

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