er been up here
before,' and Dora scarcely had time to bury Arabella under a handful of
hay before Tom's head appeared.

'Hullo! here are the girls with their silly dolls. Let me have a doll to
play with,' and he caught hold of one roughly.

'You had better leave them alone, Tom, if you don't want to get into any
more rows,' Frank said, and the little girls begged them to go away.

'This is a jolly place! Come on, Frank, I will bury you in the hay,' and
Tom snatched up an armful.

But there was something in the hay he had picked up. Dora gave a loud
cry as she saw her beautiful Arabella flung into the air and through the
trapdoor opening into the stable below. In her haste to get down and
pick up her poor doll, she herself slipped and fell on the hard floor.
By the time Nellie and the boys had scrambled down, she was weeping
bitterly, not over her own hurts, but over Arabella's smashed face, and
she took no notice of Tom when he declared again and again how sorry he
was. Of course it had been an accident, but Dora felt too angry and too
miserable to forgive him at once.

'Now then, what's all this fuss about? Have you broken that doll, boys?'

It was Grandfather's voice, and he looked very angry as he took in the
scene.

No one answered. 'Well, of course,' Grandfather said, 'you boys cannot
go to the circus this afternoon, after this. Don't cry over your doll
any more, Dora, but run and get ready, and I will buy you a new one.'

But Dora had stopped crying already, and had caught sight of Frank's
disappointed face. Now was her moment of revenge; should she take it?
She had to decide quickly.

'Please, Grandfather,' she said,'it was an accident. Tom did not mean to
do it, and I have quite forgiven him.'

'Oh, in that case, perhaps he _may_ go to the circus,' said Grandfather,
relenting; he was much too kind-hearted to wish to leave any one at
home.

So they all went to the circus, and had a splendid time. The girls
forgot their broken dolls, but Tom did not forget Dora's generosity, and
he made up his mind to give up teasing them. Indeed, from that day they
were all good friends, and Dora and Nellie agreed, when they went home,
that their cousins were very nice boys, after all.

[Illustration: "'Let me have a doll to play with.'"]

[Illustration: "The African beauty was greatly taken with Lauder."]

STORIES FROM AFRICA.

VII.--THE BEAUTY OF WOW-WOW.

We have mentioned the two companions who ac