have been very busy, or the quick little step of the
German professor must have been very soft withal; for he had
come within a few feet of her before he knew who she was or
she knew that he was there.

"Miss Elisabet'!" he exclaimed with a most good-humoured face
of wonderment, -- "I never was so honoured before! How did you
get in my arm-chair?"

Elizabeth jumped up and shook hands with him, laughing in very
relief to see him come.

"How did I get here? -- I came up through the sun, Mr. Herder."

"I have asked you to come in better time," said the
naturalist, -- "that is, better for you -- dis is very good time
for me. I have nozing to do, and I will give you lesson in
whatever you want."

"No sir, -- I am come to give _you_ a lesson, Mr. Herder."

"_Me?_ Well, I will take it," said the naturalist, who began at
the same time to run about his room and open closet doors and
jingle glasses together, apparently on his own business, -- "I
like always to take lessons, -- it is not often that I have
such a teacher. I will learn the best I can -- after I have got
you some lemonade. I have two lemons here, -- somevere, -- ah! -- "

"I don't want it, Mr. Herder."

"I cannot learn nozing till you have had it," said Mr. Herder
bringing his lemons and glasses to the table; -- "that sun is
beating my head what was beating yours, and it cannot think of
nozing till I have had something to cool him off. --"

Elizabeth sat still, and looked, and thought, with her heart
beating.

"I did not know what was in my room when I see you in my chair
wiz your head down -- you must be study more hard than me, Miss
Elisabet' -- I never put my head down, for nozing."

"Nor your heart either, I wonder?" thought Elizabeth.

"I _was_ studying, Mr. Herder, -- pretty hard."

"Is that what you are going to give me to study?" said the
naturalist.

"Not exactly -- it was something about it. I want you to do
something for me, Mr. Herder, -- if I may ask you, -- and if you
will be so very kind as to take some trouble for me."

"I do not like trouble," said the naturalist shaking his head
good-humouredly over a squeeze of his lemon; -- "dere is no use
in having trouble -- I get out of it so soon as I can -- but I
will get in it wiz pleasure for you, Miss Elisabet' -- what you
tell me -- if you will tell me if that is too much sucker."

"To take trouble, and to be _in_ trouble, are not quite the same
thing, Mr. Herder," said Elizabeth, h