WASSA’S THEFT. a3

Pond, and with much hard labor had succeeded
in clearing a small patch of ground and had
planted it with care, —the little maid, in her
small way, helping her parents as best she
could. Fish from the pond, and game from the
woods, furnished them with food, and they lived
a peaceful and contented life in this wilderness.

At about the same time the hunter (as we
will call Mona’s father) had made his home on

 

the shore of the pond, a rover and his family
built a hut on Willow Pond, and his children
they were who destroyed the lily blossoms so
ruthlessly. Too indolent to prepare the rough
soil for planting, as did the hunter, the rover
and his family lived only on the food the ponds
and woods afforded them, and, as is often the