un-bonnet! "Lizzie, you are a brick! But we won't
take your money, nor tease you any more!"

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"DAISY."

Far in the Highlands of Scotland, nestling amid their rugged mountains,
lay a beautiful farm. Here one of our boys lived with the good old
farmer for two or three years, to be taught sheep-farming. Every summer
he came to see us; and one year, as we were staying at a country house,
he brought us a dear little pet lamb, which he had carried on his
shoulder for many a mile across the country. It was a poor little
orphan, its mother having died; but Willie had brought her up on warm
new milk, which the farmer had given him. We at once named her Daisy,
she was so white and fluffy, just like a snowball; and twice a day we
used to feed her with warm milk out of a bottle. She very quickly got
tame, roaming about and following us in our walks. She knew Sunday quite
well, and never attempted to go to church with us but once; when we were
half way there who should come panting after us but Daisy, so she had to
be taken home, and very sulkily lay down beside Hero, the watch-dog,
perhaps for a little sympathy. Of course she grew into a very big lamb,
and as we had to go back to town for the winter a farmer offered to take
Daisy and put her amongst his own flock of sheep. Next summer when we
returned the first thing we did was to go and see Daisy. The flock was
feeding in a meadow, and as we opened the gate a sheep darted from among
them, came straight to us, and bleating out her welcome, trotted home
with us. She went back to live with the farmer, and died at a good old
age.

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CHARLIE'S WORD.

"Well, children, I'll let you go and have this picnic by yourselves if
you'll give me your word that you'll behave just as you would do if I
were with you. Will you promise?"

"Yes, Nurse, we do promise; and we'll keep our word," said Algy Parker,
"won't we?" and he turned round to Charlie, Basil, and little Ivy, as if
to ask them to confirm his words.

"Yes, we promise," they repeated eagerly, full of delight to think that
they might actually picnic by themselves for a whole day.

"Don't leave the Home Fields, mind," said Nurse. "You can't come to much
harm there, I should think; and I should be glad of a free day, so as to
get the nurseries cleaned out before your mother comes to-mor