y is
sketching on the outskirts, and the fox-terrier barks loudly. Will
she go on to the third seat? where I can see, though she cannot,
Jane and Avice sitting together, and Freddy shovelling sand at their
feet. Ah! at last she is made welcome. Good girls! They have
seated her and her things, planted a parasol to shelter her from the
wind, and lingered long enough not to make her feel herself turning
them out before making another settlement out of my sight.

THREE O'CLOCK.--I am sorry to say Charley's sketch turned into a
caricature of the unprotected female wandering in vain in search of
a bit of shelter, with a torn parasol, a limp dress, and dragging
rug, and altogether unspeakably forlorn. It was exhibited at the
dinner-table, and elicited peals of merriment, so that we elders
begged to see the cause of the young people's amusement. My blood
was up, and when I saw what it was, I said--

"I wonder you like to record your own discourtesy, to call it
nothing worse."

"But, Aunt Charlotte," said Metelill in her pretty pleading way, "we
did not know her."

"Well, what of that?" I said.

"Oh, you know it is only abroad that people expect that sort of
things from strangers."

"One of the worst imputations on English manners I ever heard," I
said.

"But she was such a guy!" cried Charley. "Mother said she was sure
she was not a lady."

"And therefore you did not show yourself one," I could not but
return.

There her mother put in a gentle entreaty that Charley would not
distress grandmamma with these loud arguments with her aunt, and I
added, seeing that Horace Druce's attention was attracted, that I
should like to have added another drawing called 'Courtesy,' and
shown that there was _SOME_ hospitality _EVEN_ to strangers, and
then I asked the two girls about her. They had joined company
again, and carried her beach-rest home for her, finding out by the
way that she was a poor homeless governess who had come down to stay
in cheap lodgings with an old nurse to try to recruit herself till
she could go out again. My mother became immediately interested,
and has sent Emily to call on her, and to try and find out whether
she is properly taken care of.

Isa was very much upset at my displeasure. She came to me
afterwards and said she was greatly grieved; but Metelill would not
move, and she had always supposed it wrong to make acquaintance with
strangers in that chance way. I represented that making r