TULA OOLAH.

ITTLE Celia Cameron lived with her
mother in a cottage by the sea. Her fa-
ther had been a fisherman, but was drowned

some years before, when Celia was quite a baby.
Since then her poor mother had to work very
hard to support herself and her child. She did
washing for the rich city-people who spent the
summer at the big hotel half a mile down the
beach. Good little Celia did all she could to help
her mother, by gathering driftwood for their
winter fire. There was much of this wood to be
found on the beach, for many a good ship was
wrecked on that dangerous coast. This occupa-
tion brought little Celia nearly every day to the
beach, where she was as much at home splashing

in the water, as any fish.
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