ike to have a game with his ball, which,
his papa told him, he was to kick from one end of the lawn to the other.
Getting his hat, therefore, he told Fanny she must leave her doll, and
come and play with him.

Fanny, ever anxious to please her brother, though longing to take Miss
Lucy upstairs and introduce her to Nancy and to her doll's house, at
once consented to go out with him into the garden. Placing her doll,
therefore, carefully in her own little chair, and telling her she must
sit very patiently and be a good girl till she came back, she put on her
hat, which hung up in the hall, and ran out into the garden.

Norman had already put the ball on the grass, and had begun to kick at
it. He kicked and kicked away utterly regardless of his sister, and
when she attempted to join him, he told her to wait till he was tired.

"But papa said you were to kick it from one side, and I was to kick it
from the other," she observed, "so we ought both to play at the same
time."

Norman at last allowed her to kick the ball, and was angry because she
sent it away from him, and he had to run after it before he could get
another kick. Still, Fanny did not remonstrate, and tried to send the
ball so that Norman could easily reach it.

At last Captain Vallery came out.

"I am glad to see you play so nicely together," he said; "pray go on."

"Oh do, papa, take my place," exclaimed Fanny, "it will be much better
fun for Norman, and you will show him how to play."

Captain Vallery accordingly kicked the ball, and sent it flying high up
into the air. Norman shouted with delight.

"That's much better than Fanny can do," he exclaimed, as his papa sent
the ball up several times.

"What makes it fly up like that?"

"My feet, in the first place; but as it is filled with wind, it is very
light, and rises easily," answered the Captain. "You, in time, will be
able to make it fly as high."

"I should like to see the wind in it," said Norman; and his papa laughed
at his remark, which he thought very witty.

They continued playing for some time; Captain Vallery, proud of having a
son to instruct, showing Norman how to kick the ball, and explaining the
way in which real football is played by big boys.

"I wish I was a big boy, and I soon shall be, I hope, for then I shall
have some one else besides a stupid girl to play with," exclaimed
Norman. "I would rather have her than you, though, because you kick the
ball about more than I