sity.

"Who are they?" at last said Mrs Huntingdon to the doctor. These were
the first words that for seven years had fallen from that mother's lips
on the ears of her children. How full of music were they to those who
had so long mourned her loss!

"They are visitors come here for change of air and to enjoy the sea,"
was the reply.

She looked puzzled. "I think I have seen them before," she said, and
put her hand to her forehead.

"Shall they sing something?" asked the physician.

"Oh yes! it will be so sweet; it will remind me of old times," she said.

Then Walter and his sister, at a nod from the doctor, began the touching
duet, "What are the wild waves saying?"

Their mother listened with delight. Then she said, "That used to be one
of my songs; I used to sing it with--with--ah, yes, with my husband
Walter. Pray sing something else."

Then the three united in singing "How sweet the name of Jesus sounds."

As verse after verse was given by the three voices melodiously blending,
a new light seemed to dawn into the lady's eyes. "Ah!" she cried, "I
used to sing that hymn with my dear children. Let me see. Yes, with
Julia, and Walter, and Amos.--These are my dear children, are they not?"

"Yes, yes, dear mother," cried Julia, unable to control herself.

"Who called me mother?" cried Mrs Huntingdon excitedly, and was about
to rise, but the physician gently held her back, and motioned to her
children to restrain themselves.

All was silent for a while, and then the medical man began to talk in an
ordinary way with the young people on indifferent subjects, but all the
while marking the effect of their voices on their mother. She was
manifestly coming to feel that those voices were very familiar to her,
and to have her heart and thoughts drawn out towards the speakers. "We
will move on now," said the physician after a few minutes had been spent
in general conversation. Then, giving his arm to his patient, he turned
to her children and said, "Shall we meet here again the day after to-
morrow at the same hour?" Amos bowed his assent, and, without any
special word of farewell, they parted.

On the appointed morning the same party met on the beach. The good
doctor at once began, "I have brought your mother to see you to-day, my
young friends. She was a little confused when you last met, not having
been quite well; but I believe you will find her comfortable now."

"Yes," said Mrs Huntingdon, "it is