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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Alice and Beatrice - -Author: Grandmamma - -Illustrator: John Absolom - -Release Date: February 26, 2022 [eBook #67511] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading - Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from - images generously made available by The Internet - Archive/American Libraries.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALICE AND BEATRICE *** - - - Alice and Beatrice - - -[Illustration: - - The Old Woman showing how Lace is made.—_Page 19._ -] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - _ALICE_ - - _AND_ - - _BEATRICE._ - - - - - BY GRANDMAMMA. - - - - - _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN ABSOLOM._ - - - - - - -[Illustration] - - - - - NEW YORK: - E. P. DUTTON AND Co. - GRIFFITH & FARRAN, ST. PAUL’S CHURCHYARD, LONDON. - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - (_The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved._) - - - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -[Illustration] - - - - - CONTENTS. - - - ------- - - - PAGE - - CHAPTER I. - - VISIT TO GRANDMAMMA—WALKS TO THE 7 - SEA-SHORE—BATHING IN THE SEA - - CHAPTER II. - - EVENING WALK—STEAMER—LACEMAKING 15 - - CHAPTER III. - - A RAINY DAY—STORY OF PRETTY AND THE BEAR 21 - - CHAPTER IV. - - RUSSIA AND THE FROZEN SEA 29 - - CHAPTER V. - - CELLAR—WALK TO THE SEA-SHORE—RAINBOW, 35 - ETC. - - CHAPTER VI. - - BEES SWARMING—FABLE OF THE ANT AND 46 - GRASSHOPPER - - CHAPTER VII. - - SAIL TO BRANSCOMBE—HORSES CARRYING COALS 59 - - CHAPTER VIII. - - WALK ON THE HILLSIDE—TAME AND WILD 73 - RABBITS—RETURN HOME - - CHAPTER IX. - - THE CHILD BURNT—A NEGRO CHILD CURED BY 83 - COTTON-WOOL - - CHAPTER X. - - A WINTER’S DRIVE IN RUSSIA 94 - - CHAPTER XI. - - CIDER-MAKING 102 - - CHAPTER XII. - - SQUIRRELS 113 - - CHAPTER XIII. - - THE SHIPWRECK—THE PARROT 117 - - CHAPTER XIV. - - THE KITTEN 133 - - CHAPTER XV. - - INSTINCT OF ANIMALS 139 - - CHAPTER XVI. - - LENGTH OF DAY IN RUSSIA AND FINLAND 147 - - CHAPTER XVII. - - PATIENCE AND PERSEVERANCE MAKE ALL 156 - THINGS EASY - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -[Illustration] - - - - - CHAPTER I. - - VISIT TO GRANDMAMMA—WALKS TO THE SEA-SHORE—BATHING IN THE SEA. - - -ALICE and Beatrice were two little girls of about four and six years of -age. They were staying with their grandmamma. Alice and Beatrice were -very glad to be with their grandmamma, for she lived in the country and -near the sea. They liked to see the green fields, full of pretty -flowers, and to play in the nice large garden, and to walk up and down -the high hills that were on all sides of the house, and also they liked -to go to the sea-shore and look on the wide sea. - -Grandmamma loved Alice and Beatrice very much, and she liked to have -them with her, and she tried to make them good and happy. Every morning -they said their prayers to her, and every evening before they went to -bed; and they never forgot to thank God, who had taken care of them -during the night, and to beg God to bless and take care of them, and all -those they loved, that day and always. Little Beatrice could not say her -prayers quite so well as Alice, but she said them better and better -every day. - -After breakfast grandmamma had to order the dinner, and whilst she went -to the kitchen to speak to the cook, she let the two little girls run up -and down the long verandah which was in front of the house, and which -led to the pretty garden. - -Alice read to her grandmamma, learned by heart and said some verses from -her hymnbook, and little Beatrice always learned one verse every day. -Then Alice did some sums, and after she had shown them, and grandmamma -had found them all right, Alice wrote her copy. As soon as Alice began -to write, Beatrice brought her letters and tried to learn to know them. -Grandmamma told her when she knew them all she would give her a book -with large letters and words. - -After the lessons were over, the little girls went out for a walk with -Mary. - -Mary was a kind person and very fond of the two children, and they liked -Mary very much. Mary went with Alice and Beatrice down the sloping -walks, till they came to a gate, which they opened; they then went -across a little wooden bridge, and down a very steep path and some steps -that led to the sea-shore. - -Alice and Beatrice liked to go to the sea-shore very much. Mary sat on -the sand and worked, whilst Alice and Beatrice played about. They had -each of them a pretty wooden basket and a little wooden spade, and they -dug in the sand on the sea-shore, and filled their baskets with sand or -stones. Sometimes they dug large holes for the sea to come in, and they -liked to see the waves come higher and higher, till the large holes were -full of water. Sometimes Alice and Beatrice dug a long ditch down the -sloping shore to the edge of the waves, and the water ran down it into -the sea, and they called it their river. When they were tired of -digging, they asked Mary if they might look for pretty stones, and -shells, and sea-weed. - -There were plenty of pretty stones and sea-weed, and even shells, to be -found. Some of the shells were pretty and white and smooth, and the -children took great care of them, and took them home to play with. They -often found sea-weeds of all colours, red and yellow, green and brown, -and some sea-weeds were small and fine, like hair or moss; and -grandmamma helped them to dry them, and put them on paper. There was -another kind of sea-weed that was very long and heavy, and looked like -large black rushes. Mary told them not to take those home, for they were -not nice, and they could not be dried. - -One day Alice found a pretty stone, or pebble, as it is called: it was -very clear, not quite so clear as glass; but when she held it towards -the sun, she could see through it. - -‘I will take the pretty stone home, Mary,’ said Alice, ‘and give it dear -mamma.’ - -‘Perhaps,’ said Mary, ‘your mamma will have it cut and polished for a -brooch.’ - -‘Yes, I am sure she will,’ cried Alice; ‘I am so glad that I have found -it!’ and Alice put it into her pocket. - -‘I will try and find a pretty stone too for mamma,’ said Beatrice, and -she ran along the sand, close to the waves: and just when Mary called -her to come away, a large wave came higher up than the others had done -before, and wetted little Beatrice’s shoes and socks. - -Beatrice ran back to Mary, and she was a little frightened, and she -said, ‘Mary, I did not hear you call me till that big wave came up to my -feet, and I could not run away quick enough, and my feet are so wet.’ - -‘We must go home directly, Miss Beatrice,’ said Mary, ‘and make haste -and change your shoes and socks;’ and they went home. - -Another day they went to the beach again, and their grandmamma went with -them. As they went through the pretty garden, they stopped to look at -the rose-trees that were beginning to bloom; and grandmamma gave Alice a -white rose and Beatrice a dark-red one. She cut off the thorns from the -stalks, and Beatrice asked her, ‘Why do you cut off those things, -grandmamma?’ - -‘Those things are called thorns, my dear child; they would prick your -fingers, for they are very sharp.’ - -The children looked at the thorns, and put their fingers to them, and -said, ‘They prick like needles.’ They thanked her for the roses, and -smelt them, for they were very sweet. - -They went on to the gate, and then grandmamma opened it, and gave -Beatrice her hand across the narrow bridge, and down the steep path, and -the many steps. - -Alice ran on alone, jumping along, and pulling some wild flowers that -grew in the grass on each side the path, and she came first to the -beach, and then ran back to meet her grandmamma and little sister. - -When they came to the sea-shore, they saw that Mary was there waiting -for them with a large basket. They knew that the basket was full of -their bathing dresses; for their grandmamma liked them to bathe in the -sea whenever the weather was warm and the sun shone. - -There was a tent at the foot of the cliff, for a steep cliff rose very -high a little way from the sea-shore on each side of the narrow valley -through which they had to come. In this tent the two little girls went -to undress and get ready for bathing. Mary helped them; and when they -had put on their bathing dresses, Mary did the same, and went into the -sea with them. - -Alice ran into the water alone, and jumped over the little waves that -came rolling gently on to the shore. Beatrice took hold of Mary’s hand, -but she was not afraid, and she dipped her face and hands into the -waves, and she tried to jump about like Alice. - -Then Beatrice asked Mary to let her float; and Mary held Beatrice’s -head, and the little girl lay quite stiff and quiet on the water, and -her feet and body floated, which she liked very much. - -‘Please, Mary,’ said Alice, ‘let me try and float too.’ And Mary let -Beatrice stand by her side and floated Alice backwards and forwards. - -‘When I am a little older,’ said Alice, ‘grandmamma says that I must -learn to swim.’ - -‘And I, too,’ said Beatrice. - -After the children had jumped about a short time in the waves, and were -quite warm, their grandmamma said— - -‘Come out now, you have been in the water long enough;’ and the little -girls came out and ran into the tent, where they were soon dried and -dressed, for their grandmamma helped them too, and they made haste to go -home, up the many steps and steep path, and were glad to have their -dinner, because they were hungry after their bath. - - - - -[Illustration] - - - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -[Illustration] - - - - - CHAPTER II. - - EVENING WALK—STEAMER—LACEMAKING. - - -THE weather had been very hot—so hot that the children had had no walk, -but had spent most of the day in the shade under the long verandah, and -in the afternoon they had played under a large tree in the garden. When -the evening came it was much cooler; and after the little girls had had -their tea, grandmamma told them that she would take them over the high -hill at the back of the house to visit a poor woman who had been ill. -Their grandmamma’s house was half-way up the hill—you could see the sea -through a narrow valley; and opposite the house on the other side of the -valley was another high hill, and behind that hill was the town. - -Grandmamma walked slowly up the hill, up a zig-zag path, and rested on a -bench half-way up, for it was a very steep hill. The little girls were -not tired, and they ran on before and waited for their grandmamma at -each turn of the path. They went higher and higher, till at last Alice -called out— - -‘How much I can see now, grandmamma! I can see all the town, the houses, -and the church!’ - -‘I can see two churches,’ said Beatrice; ‘and what a lot of ships!’ - -‘Please, grandmamma,’ said Alice, ‘come up higher. Pray, dear -grandmamma, make haste, there is a great smoke on the sea; it comes from -a ship. Is the ship on fire?’ she asked a little anxiously. - -Their grandmamma was soon by the children’s side. - -‘That is a steamer or steamship, dear Alice; it has a fire in it that -causes the smoke, but it is not on fire, and you can see that the smoke -comes out of a tall black chimney. You have seen the train come and go -often, and you know how much smoke it makes.’ - -‘Yes, I know; but the smoke from the train is not black like that, and -why is that?’ - -‘You are right, dear child, it is not black; but that is because they -burn a different kind of coal, called coke, in trains. Trains and -steamers are made to move by the same means, which is by steam. Some -clever man made steam turn wheels and raise heavy beams up and down, and -thus it is that ships and trains are made to move. Steam is made to -grind corn, and to make biscuits, and to saw wood, and steam helps to -make nearly everything we wear.’ - -‘Oh! grandmamma, how wonderful! I do not understand how steam can do all -that. The man must have been very clever to have thought of this. Do you -know his name?’ - -‘James Watt was his name; he made the first good and useful -steam-engine, I believe, about seventy years ago; but he was not the -first man who had found out that steam could be made useful, or who made -the first engine.’ - -When they came to the top of the hill they saw several cows feeding on -the grass. - -‘Will these cows hurt us?’ asked Alice. - -‘No, my dear, they will not, unless you tease them.’ - -‘But why do people run away when they see cows?’ - -‘It is very foolish of any one to run away. When a poor cow or ox has -been treated ill by naughty boys or cruel men, and frightened and made -angry, it runs about; sometimes people have been tossed and hurt. But if -you will treat a cow kindly, I am sure that it will never hurt you.’ - -The little girls walked through the green meadow when the cows were -feeding, and the cows did them no harm. They soon came to a nice little -cottage, with a few trees close by, and a little garden. - -Their grandmamma spoke to an old woman who was sitting outside the -cottage door, and said to her that she was glad to see her up and -looking better; and the old woman replied that the warm weather had done -her a great deal of good, and that she was very glad to see her and the -little children. - -Whilst their grandmamma was talking to the old woman, Alice and Beatrice -looked about them, and examined with wonder a cushion that the old woman -had had on her lap when they came. - -They then played with a little kitten that was in the garden till their -grandmamma had finished talking. Then Alice asked, ‘What is this cushion -for, with all those little sticks hanging down on each side of it, and -what was the old woman doing with them?’ - -‘Mrs. Miller is making lace, dear Alice, and these sticks are called -bobbins, and there is some very fine thread which she braids and twists -together into a pretty pattern.’ - -The kind old woman came and took her cushion, and sitting down, began to -show Alice and Beatrice how she twisted the little bobbins backwards and -forwards, and threw them from one side the cushion to the other. She did -this at first very slowly, that the little girls might see it more -easily; but when they had looked enough, she threw her bobbins backwards -and forwards so quickly that the children were quite surprised. Mrs. -Miller then told them that all the little girls in the village begin to -learn to make lace when they are seven or eight years old, and learn -soon to make it nicely. - -‘How very pretty it is!’ said Alice. ‘I should like to learn to make -lace. May I, grandmamma, when I am older?’ - -‘Yes, you may, if you wish it; but you must first learn to sew neatly, -for that is more useful than making lace.’ - -‘But why do all the little girls here learn to make lace, grandmamma?’ - -‘Because they can help to earn money for their father and mother. Among -the poor people in the village, very young children begin to help to -earn their own bread.’ - -Before the little girls went home, they ran about on the green meadow, -and gathered a handful of yellow cowslips and other wild flowers; but -when the sun went behind the opposite hill, and the clouds above the sun -were red and bright like gold, and the sea looked nearly the same colour -as the clouds, grandmamma said— - -‘We will go back now, for it is time for my little girls to go to bed.’ - -Then they all returned down the zig-zag path, and were soon home again, -and Alice and Beatrice went to bed, after telling Mary first of all that -they had seen. - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -[Illustration] - - - - - CHAPTER III. - - A RAINY DAY—STORY OF PRETTY AND THE BEAR. - - -‘WHAT a rainy day!’ said Alice, one morning, when Mary came to call -them, and to help them to dress. ‘We cannot go out at all to-day.’ - -‘What a pity!’ said her little sister. ‘I am so sorry.’ - -‘What shall we do all day, if we cannot go out?’ said Alice. - -‘The rain will make all your flowers grow, miss,’ said Mary, ‘and make -the weather a little cooler.’ - -‘But I want to go out and dig in the sand,’ said Alice. - -‘And so do I,’ said Beatrice. - -Mary took no further notice of the children’s words; but when they were -at breakfast, Alice said, ‘Grandmamma, is it not very tiresome that the -rain is come to-day? We cannot go out. I wish that it would never rain.’ - -‘Nasty rain,’ said Beatrice; ‘I can’t bear the rain!’ - -‘You must not say that the rain is nasty, for it does a great deal of -good, dear children. God sends us the rain when we want it, and we thank -God for it.’ - -‘Why do you thank God, grandmamma,’ asked Alice, ‘for the rain? What -good can the rain do?’ - -‘It makes the grass grow; and horses, cows, and sheep, and all other -animals that eat grass, live upon it; and the rain makes the corn grow, -and from corn we make our bread; and what would you or I do, or any one -else, if the corn did not grow and we had no bread? The rain makes the -trees and the flowers grow, and all the fruit too, and my little girls -would be sorry if there were no fruit.’ - -‘Yes, indeed, grandmamma,’ cried both children. - -‘But I thought,’ said Alice, ‘that the sun made the fruit ripe.’ - -‘Yes, so it does; but the sun alone could not make the plants grow, and -the rain alone could not make the flowers open their leaves, or the -fruit or the corn get ripe. We want both sun and rain, and we must thank -God that He gives us enough of each to do good on earth.’ - -After the two little girls had finished their little lessons, and done -all that their grandmamma wished them to do, she said to them— - -‘As you have both been good this morning, and because it rains, I will -tell you a story of my two dogs, when I lived in Russia. - -‘It was a hot summer’s day, a long time ago, when my little dog Pretty -came to me yelling and barking. I was busy writing in a little -sitting-room that opened into my bedroom, and my rooms in Russia were -all downstairs, as there was but one floor. - -‘When I looked at Pretty, I saw that the dog was trembling all over, and -every hair was standing up, for he was so frightened; and he whined and -ran about, and howled and barked in great distress; and at last he ran -into my bedroom, and crept under the bed, and there he lay trembling and -whining. - -‘All the doors stand open in a house in Russia; so I went into the hall -and then out of the open front door, and I soon saw what was the cause -of Pretty’s fear. There was a great brown bear; and though little Pretty -had never seen a bear before, yet his terror was so great. - -‘The bear had a leathern strap round his mouth, a small iron chain was -fixed to the strap; and when I looked nearer, I saw that a hole had been -made in the bear’s upper lip, and a ring was put through the hole, and -the chain was fastened to the ring as well as to the leathern strap. - -‘A Russian peasant was with the bear, and he wore blue striped linen -trousers, and his trousers were tucked into his boots, but he had -neither stockings nor socks. He had a red and white checked shirt, which -hung loose over his trousers, and funny pieces of blue linen sewed into -the sleeves of his shirt. He had a fur cap on his head, and in his hand -he carried a long stout pole. - -‘The Russian peasant called to the bear to get up, for the bear seemed -tired, and had laid down to rest himself. The bear growled, but did not -move at first, though his master shook the chain and pulled him by it; -at last the man gave him a sharp blow with a whip he had, and told him -to begin dancing. - -‘The poor tired bear stood up on his hind legs, and took the pole from -the man’s hand, and began to jump over it, but in a very clumsy manner. -The man kept calling to him in a sing-song manner, pulling often with -the chain, and giving him a smart cut with his whip: and the bear jumped -backwards and forwards over the pole, or, as the man called it, -_danced_, and grumbled and growled, for he seemed very cross and angry -that he was obliged to do all this when he was so very hot and tired. I -looked about to see where my good old dog Lion was all this time. Lion -was a splendid dog, something like an English mastiff, and something -like a lioness, and therefore I had named him “Lion.” He went out daily -with the herd of cattle into the fields and woods, and saved many of -them from being killed by the wolves. He was a brave dog, and I was very -fond of him. - -‘And where do you think I found Lion now?—not running away and hiding -himself, like Pretty, in “the lady’s chamber,” but trying to make the -bear afraid of him. - -‘For Lion walked slowly up close to the bear, then went round him twice, -looking at him well all the time, as if to say, “I am not in the least -afraid of you, Mr. Bear,” and then Lion lay down on the grass in the -shade, a little way off, but so that he should see him still, and went -to sleep, or pretended to do so. I dare say that the bear thought he had -better not go near such a brave dog, though he would have liked to give -Lion a good hug, and eat him up. - -‘At last the Russian peasant seemed as hot and as tired as the bear, and -he asked for something to eat, and some spirits to drink. So I told a -servant to bring the man some black bread and some beer and a little -spirits, and I ordered some honey and some bread for the bear.’ - -‘Why did you give the poor man _black_ bread, grandmamma?’ asked Alice. - -‘In Russia, the servants and common people all eat black bread; the -white bread which we eat here is only made for the rich people to eat!’ - -‘But why is that, grandmamma?’ - -‘It is because wheat, of which our white bread is made, does not grow -nearly so well as rye in Russia and other cold countries: and rye makes -black bread. It is not so good as wheat bread; but some people like it, -and even prefer it.’ - -‘Please, Alice, let grandmamma tell us the story of Lion and the Bear,’ -said Beatrice. - -‘Well, my dear children, you would have been glad to see how the bear -liked the bread dipped in honey, and how he drank the spirits and the -beer; but the man did not give him much of either. Afterwards I gave the -man some money, and the poor tired bear walked after his master, as well -as he could, on his four feet. As soon as the bear was gone, out came -Pretty from my bedroom, and began to bark very furiously, as if he had -been a brave dog, and driven the bear away.’ - -‘Thank you, dear grandmamma,’ said both the little girls. ‘We like that -story so much, pray tell us some more about your brave dog Lion, and -about silly little Pretty, another day.’ - -‘But Pretty was not always silly, although he was afraid of a big bear. -He was a knowing little dog, and so fond of us.’ - -‘I should have been afraid, I think,’ said Alice. ‘I should not like a -bear to come to this house.’ - -‘There are no bears here, are there, grandmamma?’ asked little Beatrice. - -‘And no horrid wolves?’ added Alice. - -‘No, dear children, none, I am glad to say. When you read more in your -history of England, you will read when the last wolves were killed in -England: a very long time ago there used to be plenty of wolves here.’ - -The two little girls looked afraid; but they were very glad when -grandmamma said— - -‘That was a very, very long time ago.’ - - -[Illustration] - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -[Illustration] - - - - - CHAPTER IV. - - RUSSIA AND THE FROZEN SEA. - - -‘NOW, Alice, bring your atlas, and I will show you on the map where -Russia lies.’ - -Alice brought her book of maps, and soon found the maps of Europe and -Asia; and grandmamma showed her where the large country lay, and pointed -out to her that the greatest part of Russia was in Asia, and reached -across the whole of northern Asia. - -‘Oh, how big it is!’ cried Alice; ‘it is much bigger than all the other -countries together. Look at little England, Beatrice,—this little island -is England, where we live; does it not look tiny? And now look at big -Russia. Look, all that yellow is Russia!’ and Alice put her finger on -the line that divided Russia from all the other countries, and showed -her little sister how large it was. - -‘Do you see, Alice,’ said grandmamma, ‘how far Russia extends? Even that -smaller part that is in Europe reaches up to the Arctic or Frozen Ocean, -and down to the Black Sea on the south; do you see, Alice?’ - -‘Why is that sea called the Frozen Ocean?’ - -‘Because it is frozen for many months in the year, and the greater part -of it is always frozen.’ - -‘Can the sea really freeze, grandmamma?’ asked both the little girls. -‘How can the waves freeze, and be made quiet?’ - -‘The sea that lies on the north of Russia freezes every winter, but our -sea here does not freeze; it is too warm.’ - -‘But how can it freeze, grandmamma? I cannot understand how it can,’ -said the little girl. - -‘It is difficult to make it clear to you, Alice; but I will try and -explain it. First, from the great cold, little pieces of ice are formed; -these pieces float about, for ice is lighter than water, and are tossed -up and down by the restless waves; and they grow in size, and become -bigger and bigger, till some join and stick together, and go on getting -larger, till by degrees they cover the surface of the water. These -pieces or masses of ice are pushed towards the shore, and there the ice -first begins to make a firm covering over the sea. - -‘But the ice on the sea is never smooth or even, like the ice on a pond -or on a river; it is rough, and large pieces are heaped together, and -large cracks are often made in the ice by the wind and the waves moving -it, which makes it dangerous to drive or even walk a long distance over -the Frozen Sea.’ - -‘Can people drive over the sea? But if it is frozen hard, why is it -dangerous?’ - -‘Yes, dear Alice, people can and do drive on the Frozen Sea, and I have -driven short distances myself on it, and I have known many people cross -this gulf,’ showing Alice the Gulf of Finland. ‘You know, dear, what a -gulf is?’ - -‘Yes,’ said Alice; ‘it is an arm of the sea that runs into the land.’ - -‘The peasants, or poor country people, used to drive across this gulf, -as soon as the ice was tolerably firm and safe. They drove in small -sledges drawn by little horses, and took over corn and other things to -sell to the inhabitants of rocky Finland, where very little corn grows. -But the getting across the large crevices or cracks was both difficult -and dangerous. The people for that purpose take long boards with them on -their sledges, and laying them across these open places, they drag their -sledges over, walking over the planks themselves, and making their -horses swim through the water; but their horses have often been lost in -these large cracks, for though the horses can always swim, they cannot -always get out of them, as the ice at the edges is brittle, and breaks -under their efforts to scramble up. - -‘I remember how some men, belonging to one of our villages, were lost in -a snow-storm out at sea, and their bodies were not found till the -summer, on a small, uninhabited island where they had taken refuge -during the storm, lying on their faces. I believe that they had first -lost their horses.’ - -‘How did they die, poor men? Were they starved or frozen to death on -that desert island?’ - -‘I believe that they were frozen to death, and had gone to sleep from -the cold, and never awoke.’ - -‘How very sad!’ said both the little girls. - -‘But did you like Russia, grandmamma,’ asked Alice; ‘so cold and -horrible, with wolves and bears?’ - -‘The winter in Russia is very long, and where I lived it sometimes -lasted half the year, and we saw no grass all that time.’ - -‘How did you like to live in Russia, then?’ - -‘I had kind friends there; but though I liked some people very much, I -did not like the country or the climate. In truth, dear children, there -is no country in the whole world like our dear England; no country where -people love God and pray to God so much as in England; and no country -where everybody tries to do so much good as in England.’ - -‘Now, Alice, look for the two great capital cities of Russia. The old -capital is called Moscow, and the new one is called St. Petersburg.’ - -Alice looked carefully at her map, and when grandmamma had told her that -St. Petersburg lies high up in the north and Moscow much lower to the -east, Alice found both places. - -‘Please show me, grandmamma, where you lived.’ - -‘Here,’ said grandmamma, ‘on the shores of the Gulf of Finland, where -the sea freezes in winter.’ - - -[Illustration] - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -[Illustration] - - - - - CHAPTER V. - - CELLAR—WALK TO THE SEA-SHORE—RAINBOW, ETC. - - -THE next morning it rained again, and the little girls could not go out; -but they were not unhappy, because they knew that grandmamma would tell -them some stories, or give them something to amuse them. - -After their lessons, grandmamma said, ‘Alice and Beatrice, I am going -down into the cellar, will you come with me?’ - -‘Yes, please, please,’ cried both the little girls; ‘we shall like to -come with you so much; we have never seen the cellar.’ - -‘Is it quite dark, grandmamma?’ asked Beatrice. - -‘Yes, to be sure,’ said Alice; ‘but Mary has a candle, and will show us -light.’ - -Mary walked on in front, and went slowly down a long, dark, narrow -staircase. Alice ran after her, and Beatrice, holding grandmamma’s hand, -followed carefully. - -The little girls looked about in wonder; they did not know what a large -place the cellar was. There were several rooms, all called cellars, -which Mary showed them. First, to the right hand, without a door, was a -very large and black-looking place, and when Mary lighted it up, the -children saw that it was full of coals. - -‘That is our coal cellar, miss,’ said Mary; ‘and this,’ opening a door, -‘is for the beer and cider.’ - -The children looked in, and saw several tubs of beer and cider placed -side by side. Then grandmamma unlocked another door, and that was the -wine cellar. They all went in; it was much cleaner and drier than the -other cellars, and all the bottles were arranged neatly: and just when -the children were going to ask some questions, grandmamma remembered -that Mary had forgotten to bring down a bottle of wine to exchange for -another bottle; so Mary went back with the candle, and Alice and -Beatrice were left in the dark cellar with their grandmamma. - -At first the two children were quite silent, till Beatrice, who held -grandmamma’s hand, said, ‘Grandmamma, can God see us everywhere?’ - -‘Yes, Beatrice; everywhere and always.’ - -‘Can God see us in this dark cellar?’ - -‘Yes, dear children. God sees in the dark as in the light; by night and -by day: God sees everybody and everything. In the Psalms[1] you will -read, “He who planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he who made the -eye, shall he not see?” which means that God who made our ears must be -able to hear everything, and God who made our eyes surely can see -everything.’ - -Footnote 1: - - Psa. xciv. 9. - -Little Beatrice thought a little while, and then she said, ‘But God -cannot tell mamma when I am naughty, can He?’ - -‘No, my dear little girl; but you must fear God more than you fear -mamma. You can never be naughty without God’s knowing it; and are you -not afraid of God’s being angry with you?’ - -‘Mamma says that God is very good and very great,’ said Alice, ‘and that -He takes care of us always, and of the whole world; and will God be -angry with such a little girl as Beatrice?’ - -‘If Beatrice did not know that it was wrong to be naughty, God would not -be angry with her; but Beatrice knows quite well when she is good and -when she is naughty.’ - -Little Beatrice pressed grandmamma’s hand, and as grandmamma thought she -heard her sob, she took her up in her arms, and Beatrice whispered, as -soon as her tears let her, that she would try and be very good. - -‘You must think more about being good, both of you, when you say your -prayers, and when you ask God to help you to be good children.’ - -Mary now came back with the candle, and grandmamma soon finished all -that she wished to do, and then they all went upstairs again; and it -seemed so light and bright when they were upstairs, that they could -scarcely see, and the sun was shining, and the rain had ceased. The -black clouds had gone away far over the hills, and the blue sky was -there again. - -Alice and Beatrice clapped their hands, and were like the sunshine, gay -and bright; all their black clouds had gone away too. They put on their -hats and jackets to run down the steep path to the sea for their usual -bath; but before they went, grandmamma told them to be careful, for it -would be very slippery after the rain. - -Alice and Beatrice walked slowly down to the sea-shore with Mary. When -they crossed the wooden bridge they were surprised to see how much water -was in the little brook. They stopped to look at it, for it was very -pretty: there was quite a waterfall just above the bridge, and the water -splashed and made a loud noise in falling. The grass looked more green, -and the flowers smelt more sweet, and Alice said, ‘Mary, I think that -grandmamma is quite right: the rain does a great deal of good. The grass -looks much greener, and the flowers look much prettier, and the little -brook does not murmur now, but it rushes and roars like the river Sid by -the mill. I know some pretty verses about “How welcome is the rain!” but -I never thought before how nice the rain was.’ - -‘When it is over, Alice; but not while it rains and you cannot go out,’ -said Beatrice. - -‘But grandmamma tells us nice stories, or shows us something. I do not -think that I mind the rain now,’ said Alice. - -‘Oh! Mary, what is that over the sea?’ cried Alice. ‘How beautiful it -is! Look, Beatrice, blue and red and yellow—I cannot count the colours.’ - -‘It is a rainbow, Miss Alice,’ said Mary. - -‘But what is a rainbow, and how does it come there?’ - -‘You must ask your grandmamma when you go home. I only know that it -comes when the rain is over.’ - -The sea had been very rough early in the morning. A sailor told the -children that it was then much too rough for them to bathe; but the rain -had come and made the sea smoother, and Alice said, ‘The rain has done -good again.’ - -The waves, or breakers, as they are called, when they came up on the -shore, were still too rough for the little girls to move about alone in -the water, so Mary let them sit near the edge and held them firmly; and -the white waves dashed over their heads and the froth covered them, and -they liked it very much. - -[Illustration: - - Fishermen pushing their Boat off to Sea.—_Page 43._ -] - -They saw two fishermen afterwards putting a boat into the sea, and they -begged Mary to let them stay and see it go off. Several times the men -pushed the boat off the shore, and each time a big wave came and lifted -it up and threw it back again. Then two other men came to help them, and -pushed the boat with great force from the shore far into the water; and -the boat rocked up and down so much among the great waves, that the two -children were frightened, and Alice began to cry. But Mary told them not -to be afraid, for the men were quite safe, as the sea was much smoother -as soon as the boat had passed the breakers and was farther off the -shore. - -When Alice and Beatrice were at home they told grandmamma all that they -had seen, and how high the waves were, and that there was so much white -froth on the shore. - -Then Alice asked grandmamma to tell them about the rainbow that they had -seen. ‘It was so beautiful, grandmamma!’ - -‘I cannot explain to you the reason why the rainbow appears, but I know -that it is caused or made by the sun being _reflected_ on the moist air. -You know, Alice, what “reflected” means; it is as when the light of the -candle is seen again, or reflected in the looking-glass: and the sun -shining on the moist air reflects those bright colours on a cloud. When -you are older you will learn all about it, and why it is always in the -shape of an arch or bow. Every one loves to see a rainbow, because it -reminds us of the promise God made to Noah, and all people, after the -flood, that He would no more destroy all flesh, which means, every -living creature.’ - -‘I remember all about it, grandmamma,’ said Alice; ‘I have read it in my -Bible stories. May I read it to Beatrice?’ and Alice fetched her book -and read about the flood and the rainbow to Beatrice; and afterwards -grandmamma read to them from the Bible as follows (Gen. ix. 13-15): ‘I -do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant -between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a -cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: and I -will remember my covenant between me and you and every living creature -of all flesh: and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all -flesh.’ - -‘So you see, dear children, that God has made a covenant, which means an -agreement or promise, never to destroy the earth again by a flood, and -the rainbow is a sign of His promise, and reminds us of it.’ - -‘I am very glad to know about the rainbow, and I will think of God’s -promise when I see one again.’ - - -[Illustration] - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -[Illustration] - - - - - CHAPTER VI. - - BEES SWARMING—FABLE OF THE ANT AND GRASSHOPPER. - - -IT was just after the children’s dinner, one very hot day towards the -end of May, that the gardener came to the verandah where the two little -girls were sitting with their grandmamma, and said— - -‘Please, ma’am, the bees are swarming.’ - -‘Swarming, grandmamma,’ said Alice and Beatrice, ‘what is that? May we -come and see?’ - -Grandmamma gave leave, and they ran and put on their hats and followed -their grandmamma into the garden, to that part where the bee-house was. -When they came there, the gardener showed them a large black lump, that -looked like a great bag, hanging from a rose-tree, and the rose-tree was -bent down by the weight of it. - -Grandmamma explained to the children that the black lump or mass was all -bees; that there had been too many bees in the hive, so that there was -not room enough for all of them to work, and that the hive was too hot -in this very hot weather, and the queen bee wished to seek another home -for herself, and had flown out accompanied by the older bees, leaving -all the young ones and a young queen in the old hive with its store of -honey. - -When the queen bee had settled on this rose-tree, all the other bees -that were flying about in the air had come to her, and collected round -her, hanging one over another. Grandmamma told the children, too, that -every bee had provided itself with a quantity of honey, in case they -should not find a shelter that night, and were not able to provide -themselves with food the next day; each bee carried a little bag of -honey. - -The children were very much interested in hearing this, and were not -afraid, because grandmamma told them that the bees rarely sting people -when they are swarming; so they went nearer, and liked to see the -gardener take a board and place it on a flower-pot just under the -rose-tree; then he took a hive and turned it up and held it under the -swarm of bees, and he shook the rose-tree very sharply twice, and the -lump of bees fell off into the hive, or at least the greater part of it: -and the gardener turned the hive down with all the bees that were in it -on to the board. A number of bees that had not fallen into the hive, -began to buzz and fly about; but the gardener said— - -‘If the queen bee is inside, and I think she is, the others will soon go -to her.’ - -And he raised the hive a little on one side by putting a pebble under -it, and thus made room enough for the bees to enter the hive. - -Alice and Beatrice, seeing so many bees still flying about, thought that -they were all coming out again; but the bees knew better; their queen -was in the hive, and content with her new house, and all the bees went -in by degrees, and soon but very few were seen flying about the hive. - -The gardener said that he would leave the hive where it was till the -evening, when he would move it into its proper place. - -Whilst the gardener was thus busied, Beatrice cried out, ‘Look! look! -what are those bees doing? Oh, grandmamma, do look at them!’ - -Grandmamma turned to look, and so did Alice, and they saw some bees -pouring out of another hive, as if they were blown out of it, or shot -from a gun. Out and out they came quicker and quicker, pouring thicker -and thicker; and then they rose in the air, and spread about, and -whirled round and round, flying higher and higher, and it seemed as if -the whole air was filled with bees, and they made quite a noise when -they flew, humming so loud. Grandmamma told the two children that this -was a swarm from another hive, and added, ‘Now we must try and watch -where they will settle, and we must follow them. I hope that they will -not fly away, else we shall lose them.’ - -Alice and Beatrice looked on in great astonishment, and then followed -their grandmamma, who would not call the gardener or ask him to follow -this swarm, as he was still busy with the other. - -‘Are you not afraid, grandmamma, that these bees will fly away, they fly -so high and so far?’ - -‘No, dear; I think that they will settle soon, as they begin to fly -lower and more together.’ And as she spoke, the cloud of bees came lower -and lower, and soon a black mass was seen on an apple tree, just between -two branches. The black mass grew larger and larger, till at last the -number of flying bees became less, and they grew quiet. They covered the -branch all round, and it looked as if something black had been put round -the branch. - -‘How will John get those bees? He cannot reach them, they are so high -up.’ - -‘John will bring a ladder, and some one must hold the board and the hive -for him.’ - -Alice ran to call the gardener, and told him of the second swarm. - -John said, ‘That is your luck to-day, miss; two swarms on one day are -very lucky. The weather is hot, and our hives are so full of brood, and -so heavy, that I dare say they are glad enough to get rid of some of -their numbers and go into a new hive.’ - -‘But have you another hive and a board ready, John?’ asked Alice. - -‘Yes, miss, to be sure I have. I made ten new hives this winter, when I -had nothing else to do, and I got the carpenter to cut me a dozen -boards; so we have plenty for all the swarms that may come. Perhaps, -miss, your grandmamma will like me to take the new Scotch hive which -came last week, so I will bring that and a straw one, and ask her which -is to be used.’ - -Alice went with John: and Alice carried the straw hive, and John carried -the Scotch hive, which was an octagon, or eight-sided, wooden one, -painted red, with glass windows and shutters; and he took two boards as -well, and they both hastened to the kitchen garden, where the new swarm -of bees had settled. - -‘What luck the little ladies have, ma’am!’ said the gardener. ‘You -promised them the second swarm; and what a fine one it is, much bigger -than the one I have just hived!’ - -‘Yes, this is the children’s swarm, and I am glad that it is such a -large one. But how will you take it, John? it is in such an awkward -place.’ - -‘With the ladder, quite easy, ma’am; but,’ added John, looking up at it, -‘I can’t shake them off the branch, and shall have to take them as I -can.’ - -John ran to fetch the ladder, which was close by against the wall, where -he had been pruning some fruit trees. - -The little girls were very impatient, and watched the gardener mount the -ladder; then their grandmamma handed him the Scotch hive; and to their -great astonishment, John said— - -‘I must sweep these bees into the hive.’ - -The gardener fixed the wooden hive between the ladder and his own knee, -and then with one rapid sweep with his hands, he threw the whole lump of -bees into the hive, and turned the hive down on the board. - -A great number of the bees flew off and rose again high up into the air, -but John said— - -‘Don’t be afraid, ma’am, they never sting when they are swarming.’ - -Alice and Beatrice began crying out, for the bees were flying all about -their grandmamma; but John was soon down from the ladder, and taking the -board with the hive upon it very gently, he placed them carefully on a -garden bench close by, and raising one side of the hive a little, as he -had done with the first swarm, he left the bees, and they all stood at a -little distance and watched them. - -The bees still rose in great numbers high into the air, and whirled -about in great confusion, and John began to fear that the queen bee was -not in the hive; but by degrees they began to cluster round the hive and -cover it. For it seemed that one or two had found out that the queen was -safely housed in the strange-looking box, and had told the news to the -others, for they came lower, flying closer and closer, and crept all -over it until they had found the entrance, and before a quarter of an -hour had passed, there was scarcely a bee to be seen out of the hive. - -‘You can leave them safely now, I think, John, till the evening, and -then I shall like these two swarms to be placed in the new bee-house. -And now you know, dear Alice and Beatrice, that the Ayrshire hive is -yours, and all the honey the bees make will be yours too.’ - -The little girls were much pleased, and thanked their grandmamma well. -Afterwards they returned slowly through the hot garden to the verandah, -and they were very glad of its cool shade. - -Their grandmamma told them a great deal about bees: that this immense -family, of often twenty thousand bees, was obedient to one single bee, a -queen bee, who was their mother and their queen, for whom they worked -and gathered stores of honey, and whom they protected from all harm. -Grandmamma told them how busy and industrious the bees were, how early -they were up in the summer, and how many times they flew out and -returned ladened with honey or with pollen which they take from the -flowers, what distances they fly in search of flowers, and it has been -proved that they will fly even several miles to gather honey. - -She described to the children how carefully they laid up a store for the -winter; and said that it was cruel of people to kill the bees to get the -honey, instead of being content to take only what the bees can spare, -which is often a great deal. - -‘I never kill my bees, you know, and I have plenty of honey—indeed, much -more than I want.’ - -‘I can say, “How doth the little busy bee!”’ said Beatrice, and her -grandmamma let her repeat the whole of the little hymn, which Beatrice -did very nicely, and grandmamma said, ‘You will soon see through the -little windows of your new hive “how skilfully she builds her cells.” I -will let you read about the cells in a nice book called “Homes without -Hands.” - -‘There is another insect,’ grandmamma went on, ‘which is very -industrious, and lays up a large store of food for the winter, and that -is the ant. There is a very pretty fable in French about the ant and the -grasshopper, which, when you are older, I should like you to learn.’ - -‘But will you tell us about it, grandmamma?’ asked Alice. - -‘Well then, my Alice, I will try, but I cannot tell it in the pretty and -clever way it is told in French. It was thus: One cold stormy October, a -grasshopper, who had skipped and chirped in the sun all through the -summer time, came to an ant, and said, “Good Mrs. Ant, you have such a -large store of corn and seed in your hill, will you spare me a little, -for I am very hungry?”’ - -‘Now, though the ant was very industrious I am afraid that she was not -very charitable, or perhaps she thought it was useless to feed lazy -people who will not work; so she answered and said, “Pray, Mrs. -Grasshopper, what did you do all the summer, while I was working hard, -and laying in a store to keep my children through the winter?”’ - -‘“Oh, in summer I sang and chirped all the day long,” replied the -grasshopper. - -‘“Then I advise you,” said the ant, “to dance now;” and the ant went -into her house in her hill, and left the grasshopper to die. - -‘You know, both of you, what an ant-hill is, do not you?’ - -‘Yes, grandmamma, I remember those little mounds, which I wanted to kick -to pieces to make the ants run about, and you would not let me, and told -me that it was cruel. Now I understand that those ant-hills are the -ants’ houses, where they live and lay up their food for the winter.’ - -‘You are quite right. Here in England the ant-hills are small, but in -other countries they are as high as you are. When I first saw them in -Russia, I could not believe that they were ant-hills; and the ants are -very little larger than those here, and yet they can collect such -quantities of earth and leaves, and can raise up such pyramids for their -houses.’ - -‘The ants are not so good as the bees; they do not make anything for us, -like those nice busy bees,’ said Alice. ‘I do not like them; and, -besides, the ant was very cross to the poor grasshopper.’ - -‘The ant was certainly very uncharitable; but all animals act only in -accordance with God’s laws. This is a fable to show the difference -between industrious and idle people. God has taught all creatures who -are to live through the winter, to labour and lay up stores; but the -grasshopper and butterflies who flutter in the sunshine, and many other -insects, by God’s will are made to live only for a short time, and -therefore do not need to store food like the ant and the bee. - -‘The industrious ant serves in the fable to show us that we ought all to -work, and you know from the Bible, that God has ordained that man should -earn his bread in the sweat of his brow, which means by _working_. The -poor man works, or ought to work, with his hands, the gentleman, or the -educated man, with his head; but work is ordered for all—for the queen -in her palace, and for little children at school.’ - - -[Illustration] - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -[Illustration] - - - - - CHAPTER VII. - - SAIL TO BRANSCOMBE—HORSES CARRYING COALS. - - -‘ALICE and Beatrice,’ said grandmamma one morning, ‘make haste and eat a -good breakfast, for we are going to spend the day at Branscombe.’ - -‘Branscombe! Oh, how nice, grandmamma! But how are we going? Are we -going to walk?’ - -‘No, dear children, we are going in a boat. The weather is so fine -to-day, and there is so little wind, and John Bartlett tells me he -thinks that it will remain fine; and therefore we will go in his boat to -Branscombe, and see the beautiful rocks there.’ - -Alice and Beatrice made haste; they were very much pleased to go in a -boat, for they had never been before on the sea. The little girls would -have eaten no breakfast, unless grandmamma had told them that the sea -air would make them very hungry, and that they must try and eat their -breakfast properly. They were told that they were to have their dinner -at Branscombe, which pleased them much. - -The cook had provided a nice dinner, and had packed it into a basket; -and the gardener carried it down the steep path and steps to the -sea-shore. - -At last grandmamma said, ‘Now you have been very good children; run -upstairs, and ask Mary to dress you.’ - -Alice and Beatrice ran upstairs; and whilst Mary was taking out their -hats and jackets, they both sat down on the carpet and pulled off their -shoes, and put on their thick boots, and stood very quiet when Mary -buttoned their little white jackets and tied on their hats. - -‘I will put your cloaks with your grandmamma’s,’ said Mary, ‘because it -will be cold when you come back.’ - -‘Cold!’ cried Alice, ‘this hot day. Oh, Mary, we cannot want our -cloaks!’ - -‘On the sea it is often cold, Miss Alice; and it may be late when you -return,’ added Mary. - -The three cloaks were put together, and the children were glad to see -that Mary was to come with them in the boat. - -When they came to the shore, there was John Bartlett waiting for them, -and a very nice large boat, half on the sand and half in the water, and -there was another sailor there, and a little boy. - -Little Beatrice said, ‘Grandmamma, that is Jack; I know Jack, he brings -us nice shrimps for our tea; don’t you Jack?’ and the boy smiled. ‘I am -so glad that Jack is going with us.’ - -The sea was very smooth, and the tide was neither high nor low, and -there were no waves. - -The children were lifted into the boat, after grandmamma and Mary had -walked along a sloping plank into it, and had seated themselves at the -end, where there were cushions, and Alice and Beatrice sat on the -cushions on each side of their grandmamma. - -Bartlett and the little boy jumped into the boat; and the other man -first pushed the boat deeper into the sea, going into the water himself, -and then climbed into the boat; and Bartlett and his boy, each with an -oar, rowed a little till they were away from the shore, and the boat -tossed up and down, and Alice and Beatrice came close to grandmamma and -looked afraid. - -Grandmamma then took Beatrice on her lap, and said— - -‘A boat always rocks up and down at first; as soon as the sails are up, -it will be much quieter.’ - -So they did not cry; but Beatrice said, ‘I should like to go back best.’ - -‘May we go back?’ asked Alice. - -‘No, dear children, you must wait a little, and then I think that you -will like the boat very much. Look at little Jack Bartlett, how he helps -his father to unroll the sail and to pull the ropes.’ - -The children looked, and saw the sailor and his boy unroll a large piece -of cloth; they knew that it was a sail, and they saw the men pull it up -a high pole, which Alice told her sister was called a mast. The sail was -red, and had a little hole in it. The wind blew upon the sail and made -it straight; then the two men put up another sail, and little Jack came -to sit near grandmamma, at her end of the boat. - -There was so much to look at, that the children soon forgot their fear, -and Alice asked— - -‘What is Jack doing at our end of the boat?’ - -‘He is steering, miss,’ said Bartlett. - -‘But what is steering?’ - -‘Steering means guiding the boat; and this is done by a piece of wood at -the end, which Jack moves backwards and forwards in the water, and this -makes the boat go to the right or to the left, as his father tells him.’ - -‘How funny that is! How can a bit of wood make a boat go one way or -another?’ said Alice. - -‘I cannot explain it to you now, dear Alice; but when you are older I -will show you how it moves, and what it does. This piece of wood is -called the rudder;’ and Alice watched the rudder some little time. - -‘Why is there a hole in the sail, Jack?’ asked little Beatrice. ‘Is the -sail old?’ - -‘No, little miss,’ said Bartlett, ‘it is quite a new sail; but a lady -let her dog make that hole only last week.’ - -‘Why did she let her dog make that hole and spoil your new sail?’ asked -Alice. - -‘The lady was playing with her dog, as she sat on the beach, and threw -stones for him to fetch; and at last she threw a stone on to the sail, -that was lying next my boat, and the dog jumped upon the sail, and -turned it over the stone, and then he bit and gnawed at the sail to get -it out. The lady did not think what harm she did me in letting her dog -make a hole in my new sail,’ said the boatman. - -‘Did she not give you anything for the mischief her dog had done?’ asked -grandmamma. - -‘No, ma’am, nothing; and she did not even say that she was sorry, but -took no notice, and walked away.’ - -‘That was naughty of her,’ said Beatrice; ‘I will not let our good dog -Wolf bite any sail.’ - -The wind filled the sails, and the boat glided quickly through the -water. The children began to enjoy the pleasant movement, and liked to -watch the mark in the water that the boat left behind it; and asked if -they might put their hands into the clear green water, which grandmamma -allowed them to do. - -Alice soon cried out, ‘Oh, grandmamma, how far I can see into the sea! -How deep it is, and how green, and how pretty!’ - -‘Very pretty,’ repeated Beatrice; and both children looked long over the -side of the boat. - -‘What is Jack doing now?’ asked the children suddenly, when they saw the -boy unwind some cord from a piece of wood, and throw the end of it into -the sea; then he threw another piece of cord, and then another, till at -last there were four strings in the sea, two on each side the boat. - -‘He is fishing,’ said grandmamma. - -‘Fishing!’ cried Alice; ‘please tell me how he is fishing.’ - -‘Each of these cords has a hook at the end of it,’ said grandmamma, ‘and -on each hook is a little bit of fish or meat. When the fish try to catch -hold of it to eat it, the hook sticks in their throats, and they cannot -get away.’ - -Just now Bartlett called to his boy, and said, ‘Jack, you have got a -fish on that line;’ so Jack pulled up the line—and it was a very long -piece of string—and at the end hung a fish. The boy took it and put it -into the other end of the boat, and threw his line in again. The fish -jumped at first up and down, but it soon lay still; and soon several -other fishes were caught, and all thrown together into the end of the -boat. - -The little girls were sorry, for they did not like seeing the fishes -hurt. - -‘Jack,’ said his father, ‘go back to the rudder, for we must try and -land soon. There is Branscombe now, young ladies.’ - -The children looked and saw that they were coming quite close to the -land again. The rocks were no longer red in colour, as at Salcombe, but -white, and very different in shape; and there was a wide valley between -these rocks and hills, and a very few houses were in the valley, not far -from the sea-shore. - -‘What a large ship that is! Shall we go close to it?’ asked Alice. - -‘Yes, quite close, miss; it is full of coals, and the people on board -are putting the coals into sacks, and then they let down the sacks into -those big boats.’ - -Their boat soon came quite near the large ship, which grandmamma told -the children was called a collier, because it always carried coals from -one place to another. The children looked hard at the ship, as they had -never been so close to a ship before. Then they sailed past the collier, -and soon came up to the big black boat, and saw that it was full of -sacks of coals, and they soon passed that. Beatrice thought that the men -who were rowing the boat looked very black and dirty. - -‘The coals make the men black, Beatrice,’ aid Alice. ‘If we played with -coals, our hands and our dresses would be quite black too.’ - -‘But do these men play with the coals?’ asked little Beatrice. - -‘No; to be sure they do not. Did you not see how the men put the coals -into the sacks, and how the dust flew about on the ship? That is enough -to make anybody black and dirty.’ - -The boat now came nearer and nearer to the land, and the little girls -looked eagerly, and asked how they should get on shore. - -‘Quite easy, little miss,’ said Bartlett. ‘Now, please sit quite quiet, -and we will run her on shore. But please, ma’am, will you sit in the -middle of the boat?’ which grandmamma and Mary did immediately; and the -two sailors let down the sails, and took the oars and rowed hard, and in -a very few minutes the boat went on to the shore, the one end much -higher than the other end. The men jumped on to the shore; and when the -next wave came and lifted the boat, they pulled it by a rope, and -brought it up much higher on the shore. - -‘Please take me out, Bartlett,’ cried Beatrice. ‘And me too,’ said -Alice. ‘May we go, grandmamma?’ asked the children; and as the answer -was ‘Yes,’ the children went to the higher end of the boat, and were -lifted on to the shore, and grandmamma and Mary and Jack followed them. -The great basket that the cook had packed was taken out, and the cloaks -and umbrellas. - -‘Take all the things up to the farm-house, please, Bartlett,’ said -grandmamma, ‘and tell Mrs. Wilmot that we shall soon come up.’ - -The children, in the meantime, were looking at something which amused -them very much. - -There were a number of horses—about twenty (for Alice counted -them)—which all walked, one after each other, with no one to guide them, -up to the big black boat that had brought the sacks of coal, and had -just reached the shore. The horses, one after another, went into the -water to the side of the boat; and when the men had laid a sack of coals -across each horse’s back, the horses went away out of the water in a -row, and up the shore, and carried the sacks in front of a large house, -where some men took off the sacks, emptied each sack, and threw them -over the backs of the horses, which then turned round and went back -again to the boat. Thus there were always two rows of horses, one row -going to the sea, and the other returning loaded with sacks of coals. - -The little girls were very much pleased to see how clever the horses -were—how regularly they went, never stopping behind, but on and on till -they reached the right place. They liked to see each horse come up to -the edge of the sea, put down its head for an instant, as if to see how -deep the water was, and step in until it reached the boat, then wait -till its turn came, and take the place of the last horse that was -loaded. The horses did not seem to mind the waves that washed up against -them, for the tide was high, and there were more waves than when the -children landed. - -After Alice and Beatrice had looked a long time, they turned away from -the sea, and went up the path that led through a green field up the side -of the valley, and followed their grandmamma till they came to an old -farm-house. - -They were very hot and tired, for the path was long and very steep, and -the sun shone bright, and they found the weather much warmer on the land -than on the sea. - -There was a large tree in front of the house, and it was so shady and -cool there, that grandmamma asked the farmer’s wife if she would let -them have a table and some chairs under the tree, as they would like to -sit in the shade, and eat their dinner out of doors. - -Mrs. Wilmot, the farmer’s wife, then ordered a table and some chairs, -and Alice and Beatrice sat down and rested a little, for they were -tired; but very soon they began to run up and down the sloping side of -the hill, and laughed when some sheep that were feeding there began to -run about too; and they chased the sheep about, till at last the sheep -leaped over the hedge at the end of the field, and began to jump from -one rock to another. - -Alice and Beatrice followed the sheep; but, on going through the gate, -they saw that they were near the sea, which lay below the steep cliff; -and large pieces of white rock, that sparkled in the sun, lay half-way -down, as if they had fallen down. - -‘You must not go so near the edge,’ said Mary, who had followed them. -‘Miss Beatrice, give me your hand, and I will let you look down into the -sea.’ - -‘I can take care of myself,’ said Alice; ‘please let me, Mary. Oh, I -never saw such beautiful rocks! I wish that grandmamma were here, she -would like so much to see them. What is that large white piece further -on—it goes so far into the sea?’ - -‘That is Portland, a sort of island; it is a long way off; only to-day -the air is so clear that we can see it easily. But we must go back to -your grandmamma,’ added Mary. ‘Are you not hungry?’ - -‘Oh yes, so hungry, Mary! Let us go back to the nice farm-house.’ And -they ran quickly back again. - -Alice and Beatrice found the table spread with a white table-cloth, and -some nice things on it ready for their dinner. The farmer’s wife had -lent some plates, and had put some milk and some cream on the table, and -some of her own brown bread; and the children drank the milk, and -grandmamma gave them some fruit tart, with a little of the nice cream. - -‘It is very good of the farmer’s wife to give us such nice things,’ said -Alice; ‘everything tastes so much better than what we have at home, I -think. But I was very hungry and thirsty; perhaps that’s why I like -everything so much to-day.’ - -“I think that is one of the reasons, dear Alice,’ was the answer. - -‘It is nice to have our dinner under this tree: do you not like it, -grandmamma!’ - -‘Yes, very much.’ - -‘And so do I, grandmamma,’ said little Beatrice. - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -[Illustration] - - - - - CHAPTER VIII. - - WALK ON THE HILLSIDE—TAME AND WILD RABBITS—RETURN HOME. - - -SOON after dinner grandmamma went with the children to the pretty green -field which sloped down to the white rocks. - -‘What is that little white thing,’ asked Beatrice, ‘up there, -grandmamma? Look, please—it moves, it runs, it is alive!’ - -‘And there, too, and there!’ cried Alice; ‘how many little animals! What -can they be?’ - -Grandmamma looked too, and said, ‘They are rabbits, little white -rabbits.’ - -‘Rabbits!’ said Alice; ‘I thought that rabbits were brown.’ - -‘Yes, so they are, my dear, that is the wild rabbits are brown; but tame -rabbits are of different colours, some white, some black, or grey, or -spotted. I do not know how these tame rabbits came here.’ - -‘May we go nearer and look at them?’ both the children asked; and they -went much nearer, and they saw a great number of white rabbits running -about in a green field higher up the hill than the one they were walking -in. The children liked to look at these rabbits running about and -playing with each other. - -‘Why are these white rabbits called tame?’ asked Alice. - -‘Tame animals are those that are taken care of and fed. For, as these -pretty white or black rabbits are not so strong as the brown ones, they -are usually kept in little houses, and fed with cabbage leaves and other -food, because the cold in winter might kill them. In Devonshire the -winter is not very cold; so I suppose that these rabbits do not suffer -from it, and that they have learnt to make themselves warm houses in the -earth, as the wild rabbits do.’ - -‘Will you tell us, grandmamma, how the wild rabbits make themselves -houses in the ground?’ - -‘They make or burrow holes in the ground, digging out the earth with -their feet, as you must have seen a dog scratching and digging with his -feet. But the rabbits dig long passages under the earth, and often near -or under a tree. I have read that the rabbits first dig down straight -till the hole is deep, and that then they make a passage, and sometimes -turn upwards again, or make it crooked, to prevent dogs finding them and -killing them. - -‘Rabbits live together in great numbers, and it is called a warren. They -like a sandy or gravelly soil to burrow in, and make the entrance to the -little house often under a furze bush that it may not be seen. Sometimes -they loosen the roots of trees so much that the trees fall; and where -there are many rabbits in a warren, the ground is very unsafe, for if -any one was riding, the horse’s foot might go through, and he would -fall, and perhaps break his leg and throw his rider. Even in walking you -might stumble, by getting your foot into a rabbit hole, which is not -easily seen. I have heard, too, that rabbits have undermined walls and -buildings, and made them unsafe.’ - -‘What is undermined, grandmamma?’ - -‘It means making a hole or mine under the ground; and when these holes -are made in soft sand or gravel beneath a heavy wall, it will fall into -the hole.’ - -‘Will you tell us what the wild rabbit eats?’ - -‘It eats nearly everything it can get; but it is very fond of all our -vegetables, and would soon spoil our gardens if it came into them. The -wild rabbit lives in the fields and meadows and woods, and eats the -young buds of the bushes and young trees; it likes especially the tender -roots of the furze bushes, and it nibbles the soft bark of the trees, -and spoils a great number of them. There are also many plants and roots -that it lives on.’ - -The children then asked to go to the end of the field, and look down on -to the sea beneath; and they all went on walking till they came to the -edge of the field. The two little girls called out with pleasure and -surprise, for they saw beyond and below them a number of large rocks, -which looked like great towers, close to the steep cliff, on the edge of -which they were now standing. - -Some of these rocks were slender and pointed, and sharp on the top, and -many were strangely shaped, and lay scattered about; but one tall piece -of rock stood out alone, nearly in the sea, as if it had been cut off -the cliff, and on the top was perched a sea-gull. - -‘Oh, grandmamma, look at that sea-gull!’ cried Alice; ‘how can it stand -on the point of that high rock?’ - -‘The sea-gull need not be afraid of standing there,’ said grandmamma, -‘for if its foot should slip, its wings would keep it from falling; and -should it even fall, which is not likely, it would not be drowned, for -the sea-gull swims well on a stormy sea.’ - -‘How wonderful it is that it can swim and fly so well!’ said Alice. ‘It -can fly much better than a goose or a duck, and they can swim and fly a -little.’ - -‘God, in His great mercy, has made the wild bird fly and swim much -better than the tame bird. The sea-gull provides its own food by diving -into the waves and catching fish, and it flies about in stormy weather -and swims on the wild waves. Man, or people, take care of the duck and -goose, and feed it, so it does not want to fly far, or swim on rough -seas.’ - -‘How very wonderful it is!’ said Alice; and little Beatrice listened -attentively, although she could not understand it all. - -‘God’s wisdom is always wonderful, my child, and God’s love is very -great. As God provides for the sea-gull and for all animals, and gives -them all their food, and takes care of them all, so God takes care of us -all, and gives us food and clothes, and everything that we want. God, as -you know, gives us summer and winter, sunshine and snow and rain, and -all for our good. God has made the earth beautiful, the grass green, the -flowers gay, the sea wide, and the heavens high; and we must never -forget to thank God for everything, and for His care of us by day and by -night.’ - -They sat down on the edge of the cliff and rested, and looked at the -beautiful sight before them; and when they had seen the sea-gull spread -its wide wings and fly over the sea, and they had watched it till they -could see it no longer, they turned back to the farm-house. There they -found Mary had put everything ready, and Bartlett was waiting. - -Grandmamma thanked the farmer’s wife, and she and the children bade her -good-bye; and after grandmamma had asked Mary if she had given the -sailors a good dinner, and Mary had answered that she had, they all went -down the side of the hill to the shore, where little Jack and the other -sailor were waiting by the side of the boat. - -They all stepped into the boat, and were pushed off, and after a little -rocking to and fro, which no longer frightened the children, two sails -were hoisted, and as there was more wind now, the boat went much -quicker. - -Soon the little girls said, ‘How cold it is!’ for the wind blew strong; -and Mary put their cloaks about them, and little Beatrice crept on to -her grandmamma’s lap, and soon fell asleep, for she was very tired. - -Alice sat between her grandmamma and Mary, and talked the whole way. She -had so many things to ask about; and she made Bartlett tell her about -his little girls at home, who had no mother. - -The sailor told Alice that his eldest girl kept his house clean and -neat, and cooked the dinner, and looked after the little ones. - -‘Do your little boys and girls go to school, Bartlett?’ asked Alice. - -‘Yes, miss, they all go; and it is a very nice school. They learn to -read and write very nicely, and the little girls learn to sew.’ - -‘Can Jack swim, Bartlett?’ she asked again. - -‘No, not yet, for I have not much time to teach him.’ - -‘Not yet! Why, Jack is older than I am, and grandmamma says that I must -learn to swim next summer.’ - -‘But, dear Alice, how can Jack learn to swim if his father has not the -time to teach him?’ - -‘Bartlett, you will teach Jack to swim when you have time, will you not? -Grandmamma says that if people do not learn to swim, when they fall into -the water by accident, they will be drowned.’ - -The sailor promised the little girl that he would make Jack swim very -soon. - -As the boat sailed past the high red cliffs before they reached home, -Alice spied a man and an ass on a narrow piece of rock some way down the -steep side of the high cliff, and asked the sailor how and why the man -had taken his donkey to such a place. - -‘It must be so dangerous. Look, Bartlett how they are going along, they -must fall!’ and Alice looked quite uneasy and frightened. - -But Bartlett soon explained to her that some poor people made gardens on -tiny plots of ground among the ledges of the steep cliff, and planted -them with potatoes; and as these little strips of ground slope towards -the noon-day sun, and are protected from the cold north winds by the -rising cliff, these people have potatoes earlier than any one else. He -told her that by setting their potatoes in September or October, the -potatoes were ready in early spring, and were often sent to London and -sold for a great deal of money. - -The sailor told the little girl that nothing but a donkey was -sure-footed enough to carry down the baskets of manure for these little -gardens, and to bring up the potatoes; that no horse could tread safe -where these asses walk firmly and steadily, choosing their own paths. -‘As you see, Miss Alice, that donkey is going on alone with his load, -and the man is following him as he best can; and the man knows that it -is safest to walk where his ass has gone already.’ - -‘How clever donkeys must be, grandmamma!’ said Alice. ‘I thought that -donkeys were always stupid. But how can it know where it is safe to -walk?’ - -‘By instinct, dear child. Instinct is a knowledge which comes of itself, -and is given to animals by God. Another time I will tell you about it.’ - -Bartlett began to pull down the sails, and called to Jack to steer for -the land, as they were now close to their own shore. Little Beatrice -woke up in time to see how some very large waves lifted the boat, and -brought it up high on the shingle. The sailors jumped out, and helped -first the children and then grandmamma and Mary out of the boat. Before -they went up the steps from the shore, they thanked Bartlett and bade -him and Jack ‘good-bye.’ - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -[Illustration] - - - - - CHAPTER IX. - - THE CHILD BURNT—A NEGRO CHILD CURED BY COTTON-WOOL. - - -THE next day, at breakfast, Alice asked when they might go in a boat -again. ‘I like it so much, grandmamma. I love to be on the sea.’ - -‘I like it too, my Alice; but we must not go often; for yesterday you -know we did nothing else but amuse ourselves, and now we will stay at -home and work and do lessons.’ - -‘Please, ma’am,’ said Mary, entering the room rather hastily, ‘Mrs. -Dunne’s little girl has been scalded with hot water. Will you please go -and see the poor child? The boy says that she is screaming so much.’ - -‘Yes, indeed I will; but whilst I am putting on my cloak and bonnet, get -me some cotton-wool; you will find some in the lowest drawer.’ - -Alice and Beatrice were very sorry that the little child was hurt, for -they knew the child quite well, and they sometimes went to the village -to see Mrs. Dunne, who was a washer-woman. - -Their grandmamma told Mary to bring the two little girls to meet her in -an hour’s time, and walked very quickly to the village. - -When she came near Mrs. Dunne’s cottage she heard the child’s screams; -so she opened the door, and went in. Mrs. Dunne was holding the little -girl on her lap; and the poor child was crying as loud as she could, and -her mother was crying too. - -‘Mrs. Dunne,’ said grandmamma, ‘put little Betsy on the bed, and show me -where she is hurt.’ - -Little Betsy knew the lady, and looked up at her, and left off crying -for one minute; and whilst her mother put her on the bed, grandmamma -made a glass of sugar and water and held it to the child to drink, and -though she still went on crying, she did not scream so loud, and Mrs. -Dunne was able to show the lady where her child was hurt. - -The little leg was very red, and was covered with large blisters. The -lady first took off the poor child’s shoe, and then drew off her little -sock so quietly that it did not hurt her, and wrapped the whole leg and -foot in the cotton-wool she had brought, and wound it round and round -with some broad tape. - -The little girl soon appeared to have less pain, for her cries were -less; and then Mrs. Dunne told the lady how her poor little Betsy, who -was but four years old, had met with this accident. - -‘But I am glad that the boiling water that went on to her leg did not go -into my dear child’s face or neck, for then it would have been much -worse.’ - -‘You see, Mrs. Dunne, that in everything we have reason to thank God for -His mercy.’ - -‘Yes, ma’am,’ said Mrs. Dunne, wiping her eyes: ‘I thank God, and you -too, that you have come and helped me so kindly.’ - -‘I will leave Betsy some medicine,’ said the lady, ‘and I will come -again in the evening and see how the poor child is; but do not move the -cotton-wool on any account.’ - -Whilst Betsy’s medicine was preparing, Mrs. Dunne was pleased to see -that her little child was much easier; and after the lady had given her -a spoonful of the medicine, she went away, and she met Alice and -Beatrice not far from the cottage. - -The two children had their hoops, and were running with them till they -saw grandmamma in the distance; then they stopped their hoops, and came -running to meet her. - -‘How is poor little Betsy?’ asked Beatrice. - -‘Where is she hurt, grandmamma?’ asked Alice. - -Grandmamma told them all about Betsy, and what she had done for her, and -said that the little girl was much easier when she left her. - -‘May we take her something nice for her dinner or for her tea?’ asked -Alice: to which Beatrice added, ‘Please let us, grandmamma.’ - -‘You may take Betsy a little basketful of strawberries, and you may -gather them yourselves.’ - -‘Thank you, dear grandmamma,’ said the little girls; ‘may we go now for -them?’ - -‘No, not now, dear children,’ said grandmamma; ‘you must come in and do -your lessons.’ - -‘Do let us go first and pull some strawberries,’ said they. - -‘No; I cannot let you go till after your dinner.’ Upon which, Alice and -Beatrice seemed very much inclined to cry, but they knew that their -grandmamma did not like them to ask again after she had refused; so they -walked on slowly, and did not speak at first. - -At last Alice said, ‘Why did you wrap Betsy’s leg up in cotton-wool, -grandmamma?’ - -‘Because it has been found that cotton-wool lessens the pain of a burn, -and helps to make it get well.’ - -‘How did people find this out?’ - -‘There is a pretty story about it, and I will tell it you:— - -‘In North America the cotton plant grows—for this white wool grows on a -small plant—and the plant has little pods. You know what a pod is, do -you not?’ - -‘Yes, grandmamma; a pea has a pod, and the peas are in it.’ - -‘Well, the cotton plant has a pod which holds its seeds—of a different -shape to the peas-pod, and not so long or so large; but the seeds are -wrapped up in this soft woolly stuff, which the negroes pick and clean -and wash. - -‘It happened once that the little child of a poor negro woman was burnt -all over—I do not know how; and as the mother had nothing to put on, she -laid her little screaming child down on a heap of the picked -cotton-wool, and returned to her work. After she had finished her -appointed work she went to her child, and found that in its pain it had -rolled about in the cotton-wool till it was covered with the wool, and -was lying quiet and asleep; and the poor negro woman was very glad. - -‘Some one who had seen the accident, and also seen the child asleep, -examined the child, and found that the blisters had gone down, and the -burnt places, which had been quite red, were nearly well. - -‘After this, people tried cotton-wool for burns, and found it nearly -always of the greatest service in relieving the pain and healing the -injuries.’ - - -[Illustration: - - Basket of Strawberries for the Burnt Child.—_Page 91._ -] - - -‘Thank you, grandmamma; that is a nice story. How glad that poor woman -must have been to find her little child nearly well!’ - -Now they were quite close to their own house, their own dog came running -to them, and jumped up at them, and nearly threw little Beatrice down, -which made her laugh, and she said, ‘Down, Wolf, down. Grandmamma, Wolf -will kiss me, he has licked my face.’ - -‘And he has licked mine too,’ said her sister. - -Wolf ran on in front, and then turned back to the children, and played -with them and jumped round them, and they had already forgotten their -disappointment about the strawberries. - -When they were in the house again, they both tried to be very good and -obedient, and they were very attentive to everything their grandmamma -said to them. - -In the afternoon they were very happy gathering the strawberries for the -poor little burnt child, and each of them had a very pretty little -basket; and the gardener showed them how to put strawberry leaves into -their baskets first, and then to put the ripe strawberries upon the -leaves till the baskets were nearly full. Then they gathered some more -leaves to cover over the strawberries. Alice and Beatrice ran back to -the house and showed their baskets to their grandmamma, and lifted the -leaves a little that she might see the strawberries. She told them that -they were good children, and that she would go with them to Mrs. Dunne’s -cottage, as she wished to see how the poor little child was. They found -little Betsy sitting up on her mother’s bed, looking very happy. - -‘I return you many thanks, ma’am, for the nice broth you sent Betsy, and -for the milk. She has just finished eating her broth, for she fell -asleep soon after you went away this morning, and her leg does not seem -to hurt her now.’ - -‘I am very glad to hear it,’ said the lady; ‘but you must leave the -cotton-wool on her leg and foot for a few days, and then I expect that -the skin will be quite well again.’ - -‘Look, Betsy!’ cried Beatrice, ‘look at these strawberries!’ And Alice -and Beatrice held their baskets to the little child, who lifted up the -leaves and called out with joy, ‘Strawberries, mammy, pretty -strawberries!’ - -‘Eat them,’ said Alice, ‘they are for you; we gathered them for you.’ - -Little Betsy put a large ripe strawberry into her mouth, and Alice and -Beatrice stood next the bed, and were glad that the little girl liked -what they had brought her. - -Mrs. Dunne thanked them, and emptied the fruit on to two plates, and -gave the children back their baskets; and then they bade Mrs. Dunne and -Betsy good-bye, and went home. - - -[Illustration] - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -[Illustration] - - - - - CHAPTER X. - - A WINTER’S DRIVE IN RUSSIA. - - -THE summer was not yet over, but the weather had changed; the days were -a little shorter, and the children could no longer bathe regularly, for -it was often very stormy; and the waves were so very high and rough, -that they only went down to the sea-shore to watch the big waves rising -up high, and then, bending their white heads over, come dashing high up -on the shore—often so high that the two little girls had to run away -fast, for fear that the waves should cover their feet. - -‘Beatrice!’ said Alice, one day, ‘you ought to learn “Roll on, roll on, -you restless waves.”’ - -‘I do know it, Alice; only I cannot say all of it.’ - -‘Then I will teach it you,’ said Alice; and she repeated all four verses -several times, till little Beatrice could say them nicely. - -Grandmamma was very pleased when they came home, to hear little Beatrice -say the following pretty verses to her: - - ‘Roll on, roll on, you restless waves, - That toss about and roar; - Why do you all run back again - When you have reached the shore? - - ‘Roll on, roll on, you noisy waves, - Roll higher up the strand; - How is it that you cannot pass - That line of yellow sand?’ - - ‘We may not dare,’ the waves reply: - ‘That line of yellow sand - Is laid along the shore, to bound - The waters and the land. - - ‘And all should keep to time and place, - And all should keep to rule— - Both waves upon the sandy shore, - And little boys at school.’ - -And grandmamma kissed both the little girls, and said that they were -good children. - -One day it was very stormy; the rain fell fast, the wind howled and -whistled, and the children could not go out. - -‘I fear that the summer is nearly over; but it is very early,’ said -grandmamma, ‘to have such stormy weather. You have both been very good -and attentive; will you like to hear something more about Russia and the -cold winter there? But, Alice, take that tea-cloth to hem, and, -Beatrice, bring your old dress, I will show you where to unpick it; and -when you are both of you busy and quiet, I will begin.’ - -Grandmamma took her work, and began thus:— - -‘It was in winter, when your dear mamma and aunt were both little -children of about your age; the snow was very deep, and the weather had -been very cold; and all the rivers were frozen so hard that every one -could drive across them. In Russia there are a great many bogs, which in -summer are so wet and soft that no one can go near them; but in winter, -people drive on the frozen bogs when they are covered with snow.’ - -‘But why do not people drive along the roads in winter?’ asked Alice. - -‘Because the roads are often filled with snow-drifts, and also because -it is often much straighter and nearer to drive across the rivers and -the bogs. But it is very difficult, when dark, to find the road on these -wide and lonely moors or bogs, especially when it snows, and the fresh -falling snow covers the track.’ - -‘Were you not afraid, grandmamma, to drive in those lonely places?’ - -‘At first I was, my Alice, but I soon became accustomed to it.’ - -‘Please, Alice, do not talk,’ said little Beatrice. - -‘Well, my dear children, I was telling you what a cold winter we had; -but though the weather was very cold and rather stormy, your dear mamma -and aunt drove with me one afternoon in a large sledge drawn by two -black horses, and my good old coachman drove us, and a man servant was -with us. We drove to call on one of our neighbours, and, as is the -custom in that part of the country, we stayed to tea there. The tea was -late and the servants slow, for after I had given the order that our -sledge should come round it was delayed; and I inquired several times, -and grew impatient, for I did not like to keep my two little girls up so -long, or drive home across the lonely moor so late at night, and we had -six or seven miles to drive. - -‘At length I was told that my sledge was at the door; and my little -girls were soon dressed in their warm winter cloaks and bonnets, and the -servants covered us well with our rugs lined with fur, and we had some -pillows put in over our feet to keep us warm. - -‘When we set off, and I could look about me a little, I found that the -weather was very bad; the snow fell fast, and the wind blew hard, and -drifted the snow in heaps across the road, so I knew at once that our -drive home would be slow and tedious. - -‘The horses have bells in winter; and they shook their heads, and the -bells sounded cheerfully; and the horses set off briskly homewards until -we came to the great bog. At first all went well, and I was glad, till -we came to about half-way; the coachman then began driving very slowly, -and at last stopped the horses. - -‘“What is the matter, Mart?” I asked; “have you lost the road?” - -‘“Yes, ma’am, I have; and the horses sink into the snow so deep that -they can hardly go on.” - -‘The footman jumped down, and said that he would go and look for the -road.’ - -‘Look for the road!’ said Alice, laughing; ‘how funny! How could the -footman find the road if it was quite dark?’ - -‘It is never quite dark in winter in Russia, because the snow gives some -light. - -‘The man, however, walked about, and went so far off, that the coachman -grew impatient, and, thinking that he would find the road quicker -himself, jumped off his seat and left us alone with the horses, who -pawed up the snow and shook their bells and harness; and your aunt and -mamma were sleepy and tired and very cold. - -‘I took little mamma on my lap, and wrapped her up in my large fur -cloak, and covered dear little aunty with the pillows, and made her -comfortable and warm in her corner, so that she might go to sleep. But I -myself was very cold, and was very uneasy too; for I did not like my -little girls to be out late at night, and in such bad weather; and my -feet ached with cold. I tried to wait patiently, and was glad that I -could see the figures of the two men in the distance. At length the -coachman came back to us, and began to look at the snow close to us; and -to our great joy he found that the beaten track was close by, only -covered with the fresh fallen snow. He shouted to the footman, and he -was soon back and seated next the coachman: and the horses seemed as -glad as we were to be going home at last, and set off so briskly, that -we were soon safe at home; but it was nearly eleven o’clock, for we had -been just three hours on the road, which we usually drove in one hour. -We were very glad to be home again, and I thanked God in my prayers that -my little girls were safe.’ - -‘Oh, grandmamma!’ said Beatrice, ‘I should be afraid to drive about in -that way. I should not like to live in Russia.’ - -‘My darling, you would not be afraid if I were with you, and told you -that God was watching over us, and that God would take care of us and -defend us from all harm there, in cold Russia as in our dear England.’ - -‘Thank you, dear grandmamma,’ said Alice, ‘I like that story; but still -I should not like to drive in the snow across those large moors in -winter in Russia. - -‘But tell me, please, how can people find such snowy roads if there are -no hedges to show them where they are?’ - -‘The road is easily found by men and horses, because, where the snow has -been trodden down and driven on, it is hard and firm, and all around is -soft and deep; and, therefore, when the horses sink deep into the snow, -the driver knows that they are not on the track or right road.’ - - -[Illustration] - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -[Illustration] - - - - - CHAPTER XI. - - CIDER-MAKING. - - -THE two little girls received an invitation from a farmer’s wife, who -lived in a valley not very far off, to come and see the first cider -made. - -‘May we go, dear grandmamma, may we go?’ said Alice and Beatrice; ‘we -shall like it so much!’ - -‘I want very much to know how cider is made,’ said Alice. - -‘Then you must try and learn all about it to-morrow; and what you do not -understand, you must ask Mrs. Laurence to tell you.’ - -The children were very impatient for to-morrow, and were delighted the -next morning to see that it was a fine and sunny day, and very warm. - -After their early dinner, the two little girls went with Mary over a low -part of the hill, and down a steep road into the valley where Mrs. -Laurence lived, who was very glad to see them. - -Mrs. Laurence took the children first into her kitchen, a large room -where a good fire was burning, although it was so warm out of doors. -Mary took off their cloaks, and put them down on a chair in the corner; -and Mrs. Laurence took the little girls out of another door, and they -walked through her nice little garden, which had a number of beautiful -rose trees in full bloom. The farmer’s wife told Alice and Beatrice that -her boys liked to keep the garden in order after they had done their -farm work, and that they had budded all these roses, and she was very -proud of her flowers. - -When they came to the large open yard at the back of the house, they saw -a number of geese come flying down the hill that rose up all round the -yard; and the children stopped to see the geese come one after another -with a great noise, and the sound they made with their wings was very -loud and very strange; and they asked why it was. - -‘It is because the geese are so very heavy, and do not fly much—only now -and then, when they want to come quickly to some place,’ said Mrs. -Laurence. - -‘It is a sign of stormy weather coming,’ said Ellen, Mrs. Laurence’s -eldest girl, ‘when the geese fly about and scream so: is it not, -mother?’ - -‘Yes, I have heard so, and I believe that the geese are always right; -and I daresay we shall have some bad storms soon.’ - -‘How do the geese know that there will be stormy weather soon?’ asked -Alice. - -‘God has given them the sense to see it coming,’ said Mary; ‘and dogs -eat grass just before it rains.’ - -‘But I do not understand,’ said Alice, ‘how the geese see the bad -weather coming.’ - -‘You had better ask your grandmamma, Miss Alice,’ said Mary; ‘she will -tell you all about it.’ - -The little girls then followed Ellen across the yard; it was very dirty -and wet, for it had rained the day before; but Ellen took Beatrice in -her arms, and showed Alice how to step on several large stones that were -there, perhaps on purpose that people might step on them, and not go in -the mud or water. - -Two pretty dark-red cows, with long slender horns, were standing under -an open shed; and Ellen went up to one of them, after she had first -brought a clean wooden pail and a little stool, and she sat down on the -little stool, and put the pail in front of her knees, and then she -milked two streams of white warm milk into the pail, and it was all -white froth, like the froth upon the waves, and the cow turned round its -head and looked at the children. - -They might have been, perhaps, a little afraid; but Ellen said, ‘You may -stroke her, miss, she is such a good cow.’ - -So Alice put out her hand, and rubbed the cow’s head, and patted her. - -‘Will you like to give her an apple?’ said Ellen to Alice; and Alice -took an apple that Ellen gave her, and went to the cow and held out the -apple to her; but when Alice saw the cow’s head come so close to her, -and her long tongue put out to take the apple, Alice jumped back, and -threw the apple at the cow, who stretched out her neck to reach it, but -could not. - -‘Why, Alice,’ said little Beatrice, ‘you never gave the cow the apple. -Were you afraid?’ - -‘I did try to give her the apple; but her tongue was so very long, that -I was afraid that she would get hold of my hand, so I threw her the -apple.’ - -‘I will pick it up, and give it to the poor cow,’ said Beatrice. ‘Do -cows like apples?’ she asked, after she had picked it up and given it to -the cow, who ate it very quickly. - -‘Yes,’ answered Ellen; ‘cows are very fond of apples, and get plenty of -them when they feed in our orchard; and horses and pigs and sheep all -like apples.’ - -After Ellen had milked four cows, and showed the little girls a pretty -red calf, and given it a pailful of milk and meal to drink, she took -Alice and Beatrice to see the hens and the chickens and the ducks. There -were such a number of chickens; and two hens had each a large brood of -young chickens. The pond was full of ducks; and Ellen told the little -girls that though there were plenty of rats about in the farmyard, and -rats are very fond of eating young chickens and ducklings, they never -lost any of theirs, for they had two cats that always slept and lived in -the hen-house, and the hens were so fond of the cats that sometimes they -laid their eggs in the cats’ basket. The cats liked the chickens and -little ducks, and never let a rat come near them in the night. - -The children begged to see the two good cats, but Ellen said, ‘We will -now go to the orchard.’ - -The orchard was a little way off, up the side of one of the hills, and -the sun always shone on the trees, for the hill lay to the south, and -was warm and sheltered from all cold winds. - -‘What lots of apples!’ cried the two children; ‘the trees are quite -full; and why are so many on the ground and in a great heap?’ - -‘Those are for cider, and are to be taken to our cider press; but will -you not have some apples to eat?’ said Ellen, ‘I will show you where -some very nice eating apples grow, and I will shake the tree for you.’ - -They walked farther into the orchard, always going higher and higher up -the hill side, and they called out every time when they passed a tree -which they thought looked fuller of apples than the others, till they -came to a tree which was covered with red apples. This tree Ellen began -to shake, and the apples came down in such numbers, and so quickly, that -Alice and Beatrice were afraid that the apples would fall on their -heads. - -‘Will you not pick some,’ said Ellen, ‘and put them in your baskets, and -then you can eat what you like?’ - -Then they went higher still, to the furthest end of the orchard; and -there they had a fine view of the sea and all the hills about them, and -of the town; and when they had rested up there a little time, and eaten -some of their nice apples, they returned with Ellen to the farm-house. - -Here they found that a great quantity of apples had been brought, and -had been put into a large trough at the back of the house, and a horse -was harnessed to a long beam of wood, and the horse went round and -round. Ellen showed the two children how the apples slipped down into a -large hole, and were crushed inside in a sort of mill; and she let them -see how the apples came out of this mill down below; but they did not -look like apples, but were brown and soft, and did not look at all nice. - -‘Why do they make those nice apples into that nasty mess?’ said Alice. - -‘To make cider,’ said Ellen. ‘The apples are crushed to pieces in the -mill, and in a short time that nasty muddy stuff will be nice clear -cider.’ - -‘Cider!’ cried Alice; ‘how can such horrid stuff ever be cider?’ - -‘We let them stand a short time till the juice separates from the thick -part, and it ferments, and the juice becomes cider.’ - -The cider press did not interest the children long; they liked most to -go about the farmyard, and help to feed the chickens, and go to the pond -and look at the snow-white ducks swimming about in the pond; and whilst -they were looking at the ducks putting their heads down deep in the -water, Beatrice heard a great grunting behind her, and turned round and -called out, ‘Alice! look, what a big pig!’ - -Alice turned, and saw a very large black pig, with a great many little -pigs running after it, all grunting together. - -‘How many little pigs are there?’ said Alice, counting them as she -spoke. ‘There are ten little pigs; and is that their mother, Ellen?’ - -‘Yes, Miss Alice; and she is a very good mother to her little ones.’ - -Alice and Beatrice laughed at the idea that the old black sow, who was -grunting about in the farmyard, should be called a good mother. - -‘But she is a very good mother,’ said Ellen; ‘for she takes her little -pigs into the corn-fields after the harvest, and when she finds some -corn on the ground, she calls her little pigs together, and lets them -eat it up, and does not eat any herself till she thinks that they have -had enough.’ - -‘I did not think,’ said Alice, ‘that pigs loved their little ones.’ - -‘Indeed they do, and all animals love their young; and if any one tried -to take away one of her ten pigs, the old sow would fly at them, and try -to bite them.’ - -‘But will she bite us?’ asked Beatrice. - -‘Oh no; she is very good-tempered, and knows that we will not meddle -with her pigs or hurt them.’ - -After the children had amused themselves in looking at everything, and -at last helped Ellen to feed the chickens, they went into the -farm-house. Mrs. Laurence had a jug of milk on the table and some -glasses, and a loaf of nice brown bread which she told the children she -had made and baked herself, and a pat of butter was on a plate, with the -figure of a cow on it. Mrs. Laurence gave the children each a glass of -milk, and Ellen cut them each a slice of brown bread, and buttered it -with the nice butter; and Alice called out that it was a pity that Ellen -cut through the shape of the cow, and spread it on her bread. - -‘You have a piece of the cow on your bread, Beatrice;’ and Beatrice -laughed, and thought it very funny. - -Alice and Beatrice thanked Mrs. Laurence and Ellen for the nice bread -and butter and milk; for they were very hungry, and it was their -tea-time. - -Mrs. Laurence gave the children a piece of white honey-comb on a plate, -for their grandmamma. - -‘Grandmamma has some from her own bees,’ said Alice. - -‘I know she has; but my honey has a different taste, for my bees gather -their honey from Mutter’s Moor, where there is so much heath and broom, -and heath honey is reckoned the best.’ - -‘I will ask grandmamma to give me some of hers, for hers is very good. -Her bees get their honey from her garden flowers, grandmamma says, and -from the lime trees.’ - -Mary put on their cloaks, and told them that their grandmamma had sent -two donkeys for them to ride home on; for the farm was rather a long way -off their home. - -Alice and Beatrice were very glad, because they liked to ride very much, -and besides they began to feel tired. - -The little girls shook hands with, and bade Mrs. Laurence and Ellen -good-bye, and were lifted on to their donkeys; and Mary walked by the -side of Beatrice’s donkey, and held her donkey’s bridle, and thus they -reached their own pretty home on the hill, and found grandmamma waiting -for them at the door. - -Alice and Beatrice told grandmamma about everything they had seen and -done, and were soon glad to go to bed. - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -[Illustration] - - - - - CHAPTER XII. - - SQUIRRELS. - - -‘WE have had such a nice walk, grandmamma!’ said Alice, entering the -room. ‘We went first with Mary to the village, and she bought herself -some needles and pins, and some cotton; and then we left those books, -which you gave us, at the rectory; and we saw Mr. Potter’s beautiful -garden, which goes up that steep hill by the house. There were such a -number of roses in full blossom! - -‘We walked a little way into Branscombe parish, and there was a big -stone, and Mary told us that it was there to show where Salcombe and -Branscombe met. It was so funny for Beatrice and me to jump in and out -of Salcombe! How can people divide places?’ - -‘Places or parishes or countries that cannot be divided by water must be -divided by landmarks. These landmarks are sometimes large stones, -sometimes an old tree, or a line of trees, or a wooden post; but water -divides the best. - -‘I remember, when I was young, travelling from Belgium into Prussia, and -only a post painted with each country’s colours served to show us where -Belgium ended and where Prussia began; and my sisters and I thought it -fun to jump with one step from one country into another, as you did -to-day from one parish into another. - -‘Because England is an island, and is separated by the sea from other -countries, English people think it strange that nothing more than a -stone or a post can serve as boundary between two strange countries; and -that the people on the one side of the stone or post should speak one -language, and on the other should speak another language. Some countries -are divided by a chain of mountains, as the Pyrenees divide France from -Spain; the Alps, France from Italy. You have learnt about these chains -of mountains, my Alice, and to-morrow you shall show me on the map the -different mountain boundaries.’ - -‘But we came home by the wood, grandmamma,’ said Beatrice, ‘and we saw -such pretty creatures jumping about in the trees.’ - -‘Mary called them squirrels,’ said Alice. ‘They were so pretty, and -jumped from one tree to another such long jumps, and swung backwards and -forwards on such little branches that we were afraid that they would -fall down.’ - -‘Squirrels are very pretty, interesting little animals,’ said -grandmamma, ‘and live in the woods; and I think that they like fir-trees -most, for I have seen them often in a fir wood, and I know that they eat -the seeds of the spruce fir—you have seen the pretty long cones—and the -squirrel bites the cones asunder and eats the seeds. - -‘Did you observe how small and slender they are, with small heads and -pointed noses, and such bright eyes? The colour of their fur is reddish -brown, and they have such a long bushy tail. The squirrel makes two -nests, a summer nest and a winter nest. In the latter, which is very -strongly built, and thick and warm, it rolls itself up and lies asleep -through much of the winter time. The squirrel’s summer nest, on the -contrary, is light and airy, and it is made near the end of a bough, so -that it swings about with the wind, and rocks like “the cradle on the -tree-top,” and there the mother-squirrel has her little ones: but if any -one should try and climb the tree, she takes her little ones, one by -one, in her mouth, and leaps from branch to branch and from tree to -tree, till she is sure they are safe; but when the danger has passed, -she takes them back again to her nest in the same manner.’ - -‘How clever of the squirrel! I should like to see a squirrel jumping -with a little squirrel in its mouth. May we go again to the wood? -perhaps we may see the pretty squirrels again.’ - - -[Illustration] - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -[Illustration] - - - - - CHAPTER XIII. - - THE SHIPWRECK—THE PARROT. - - -ONE evening there was a great storm, although it was not autumn yet, -which is the time for storms. The wind had been very high all the -morning, and had become louder and more stormy as the day went by; and -just before the children were going to bed, their grandmamma told them -that she was very anxious, for such a stormy night would be, without -doubt, dangerous to many ships now at sea. - -The noise of the wind was very great, and the doors and windows rattled -and shook, and Alice asked— - -‘Is that loud noise the sea that we hear, grandmamma?’ And her -grandmamma told her it was; and when they listened they heard the roar -of the waves as they broke upon the shore, and they thought that they -even heard the shingle rolling back with the heavy waves. - -‘Do not forget to add to your prayers to-night, “God bless all those at -sea,” my dear children; for there will be many who may stand in great -need of God’s merciful help to-night,’ said grandmamma, as Alice and -Beatrice bade her ‘good-night.’ - -The two little girls went to bed, thinking much of their grandmamma’s -words, and did not forget to pray for ‘all those at sea.’ The noise of -the storm at first kept them awake, but sleep came soon, and they forgot -in sleep all their thoughts and fears. - -Before breakfast the next morning the news was brought that a large ship -had been thrown on the shore at Sidmouth during the night, but not a -single life was lost. - -The news was brought by the gardener, who had been in Sidmouth very -early in the morning, and therefore grandmamma sent for him afterwards -to come and tell her all he knew about the wreck. - -‘It is not much of a wreck,’ the man said, ‘for the ship has not had -much damage. It was a special mercy of God that the moon had risen soon -after midnight, so it was light; and the master of the ship knew the -coast well, and knew, too, that unless he kept the schooner straight -upon the town, it would go to bits on either side of it against our -rocks. And so, in spite of the fury of the storm, he managed to steer -her hard on to the shore, which is deep enough, you know, ma’am, at high -water. The south-west wind helped to drive her on; but the men got -frightened at last, and took to the boat as soon as they could see the -Sidmouth lights, for they could not help fearing that the ship would go -aground and break up. - -‘The crew, who rowed for their lives, had not reached the shore when -they saw their ship come on past them with mighty force; and with the -high tide she ran high and dry on to the parade, not far from the -coastguard’s station, where she is still. - -‘It is quite a wonder; and what a mercy that not a soul has perished! -for the crew were soon thrown on the shore by the breakers; and though, -of course, they were wet to the skin and worn out, yet they were all, -thank God, safe. - -‘A number of the fishermen, who had been watching the ship some hours, -and had waited for them, ran down and caught the boat just when a huge -breaker had lifted it up, and would have torn both men and boat away -back into the raging sea.’ - -The children asked how the fishermen were not afraid that those dreadful -waves would carry them away too. - -‘The breakers would have done so, miss,’ said John; ‘but the men all -held on to a stout rope fixed to the shore, and were able to keep their -feet, holding by the boat at the same time, when the big breaker went -clean over them, and thus it could not sweep them away.’ - -When grandmamma heard this, she told Alice and Beatrice that she should -drive with them to Sidmouth and see the ship, and learn more about this -wonderful coming on shore and merciful escape. - -The two little girls were so glad, and talked of nothing but the ship -and what they should see, as they drove over the hill to the town. - -The carriage stopped at the hotel on the parade, and from there -grandmamma and Alice and Beatrice walked till they came near the -stranded ship, which looked such a huge monster out of the water. - -A great crowd had collected round the ship, but they were allowed to -pass and come much nearer. The sailors were running backwards and -forwards, talking loud and telling everybody what a night they had had, -how terrible the storm had been, and what they had done to save their -lives. - -A gentleman, a friend of grandmamma’s, told her a great deal about the -ship, and said that it had come from the eastern coast of Africa, round -by the Cape of Good Hope, and that the sailors had brought with them -numberless animals and curious articles, and they wished to sell them -here; for they must now go by land to London, and could take but very -little with them. The gentleman pointed at the same time to several -small monkeys that were climbing up the ropes and rigging of the ship, -and jumping about, and shrieking and chattering to the people below. -They seemed very happy at being loose, instead of shut up in cages, and -to enjoy being safe and quiet instead of being tossed and thrown about -upon those terrible rough waves. - -Alice and Beatrice were lost in wonder, and were quite silent; they had -never before seen so much that was new and strange to them, and here was -so much to see. - -Suddenly Alice called out, ‘Grandmamma, do you see that beautiful bird? -Pray look; what bird is it?’ - -And at the same time a sailor came up to them with a very fine parrot in -a small cage. The parrot was grey and red, but its feathers were ruffled -and wet, and the cage was so small that the poor parrot could hardly -turn round. - -‘Will you buy a beautiful talking parrot?’ said the sailor; ‘he can say -anything you like. Please, will you have it, ma’am? I will let you have -it very cheap,’ addressing the lady, as he saw that the two little girls -had turned to her and were asking her to buy his bird. - -Grandmamma agreed, and bought the bird for a small price, for the man -told her that he should be so glad to get rid of it, as well as of a -pair of green paroquets which he would fetch from the ship. - -[Illustration: - - Grandmamma buys a parrot saved from the wreck.—_Page 125._ -] - -The sailor then, putting the parrot in its cage into Alice’s hand, -disappeared among the crowd; and before many minutes had passed, the -children saw the same sailor on the deck of the ship, and saw him let -himself down to the ground by a rope, and soon come again towards them -holding a small cage or box. In this were two much smaller birds, of -slender shape, with long tails, and of the most beautiful green colour. -Alice and Beatrice could scarcely express their joy when grandmamma -bought them as well, saying, at the same time— - -‘These are love-birds, from Australia.’ - -The sailor looked, and said, ‘Yes, that is their name, and they came -from Sydney; but the parrot I got off the west coast of Africa.’ - -‘Will you have a monkey too, ma’am? One of our men has several.’ - -‘No, thank you,’ said the lady; ‘I have enough now, and am not fond of -monkeys. But now we must go, dear children, first to Brown’s shop, where -I will get two proper cages for our new birds, for the poor creatures -cannot move in these. Can you carry the parrot, Alice? is it not too -heavy for you?’ - -‘No, not at all,’ said Alice, a little proudly; ‘I like to carry our -parrot. May I hold the cage the whole way home?’ - -‘Yes, if you like, my dear;’ and they walked on to the shop, where -grandmamma soon found a nice large cage for the parrot. It was of brass -wire all round, and from the top hung inside a large wooden ring, in -which grandmamma told the children parrots like always to sit and swing. - -‘What! like the squirrels on the trees, grandmamma?’ said Alice. - -‘Yes; I suppose it reminds them of the swinging branches of the trees in -the country where they lived and flew about.’ - -‘But where is their country?’ asked Alice. - -‘In some part of Africa; in that hot country there are plenty of those -gay-coloured birds. You know where Africa is on the map, and that it is -one of the great divisions of the world?’ - -‘Yes, I know that: Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Australia.’ - -‘Quite right, my child. But though it is cruel and wrong to shut birds -up in cages, now that parrots have been brought away from their far -distant home, and because it is much too cold for them to live and fly -about in the woods in England, we must try and make our parrot and those -pretty little love-birds as comfortable and as happy as we can.’ - -Another cage, a square one, was chosen for the love-birds, and seed was -bought as well, at another shop, and then they drove home with their new -live toys. - -Grandmamma showed Alice how to strew sand on the board at the bottom of -each cage, and where to put the seed and water for the birds’ food; and -when the cages were made ready, grandmamma opened the doors of the -parrot’s new and old cages, and putting the two cages quite close -together, the children went a little way off and watched the parrot. -First he looked at his new cage a short while with outstretched neck, -till he saw the seed and water, when he suddenly hopped on to the open -door, and then into the large cage, and began feeding and drinking -eagerly at the seed and water, as if he had been very long without food, -as most likely, during the storm, no one had had time to attend to him, -and the birds had been forgotten. - -‘If the ship had gone down our birds would have been drowned, would they -not, grandmamma?’ said Alice. - -‘Yes, dear Alice, they would; and, what would have been sadder, the poor -men too, if God had not taken such care of them.’ - -‘I am so glad,’ said Alice, turning to the bird, ‘that you were not -drowned, you pretty parrot!’ - -The other cage was then placed next to the little box where the pair of -love-birds were, and though they were more shy than the parrot, they -made a rush into their house, and they seemed quite as hungry, for they -began to eat immediately. - -‘We will leave the poor birds now alone a little, and get ready for -dinner; and I dare say that my little girls will be nearly as glad of -their dinners as the poor shipwrecked birds are.’ - -The children laughed, and said that they were very hungry, and they -hoped that their new birds would soon feel happy in their nice large -cages. - -After dinner Alice and Beatrice went to see their birds. The parrot was -swinging in its ring; but though they spoke to it, and called it ‘pretty -Poll,’ it neither spoke, nor moved, nor took notice of the children. -They remained standing next the cage, and watched the bird long, and -were very disappointed that this wonderful talking parrot could not, or -would not, speak a word. - -The little green love-birds seemed frightened when the little girls went -near their cage, and flew about and fluttered, till Alice and Beatrice -left them at their grandmamma’s wish. - -The next morning their first visit on going downstairs was to the birds. -The parrot was swinging again on his ring, and the love-birds fluttered -about; but Alice observed that they had eaten nearly all the seed, and -that their feathers were dry and smooth and clean, and bright green, and -the children said that they had never seen such beautiful birds before. - -Grandmamma said to Alice, ‘This morning you are late, and you must come -to breakfast first; but another morning try and be ready a little -earlier, and then you may give the birds fresh seed and water and clean -sand before breakfast. To-day Mary will show you how to do so.’ - -Alice ate her breakfast quicker than usual this morning, for she was apt -to be slow, and to talk and to waste her time whilst dressing and whilst -eating. - -When both the little girls had finished their breakfast grandmamma told -them to call Mary to feed the birds. - -‘May I take two bits of sugar, grandmamma?’ said Beatrice. - -‘You may, dear; but be careful, for parrots bite sometimes; and you are -a stranger to our parrot, and he may not like you.’ - -The parrot would not take any notice of the children, but swung -backwards and forwards in his ring. Grandmamma told the children to ask -Mary to place the two cages in the verandah where the sun was shining, -for it was a fine sunny day, and grandmamma said that all birds except -owls liked the sun. - -Soon after the cages had been put in the verandah, and both the children -were picking up and arranging their playthings, with their backs turned -to the birds, they were suddenly startled by hearing a loud ‘Good -morning!’ called out close behind them. Alice and Beatrice looked round -to see who spoke so loud, when ‘Good morning!’ was repeated by the same -voice. Beatrice was a little frightened, till Alice said, ‘It is the -parrot!’ - -They were so pleased. Beatrice ran to call grandmamma to come and listen -to their talking parrot, and Alice went closer to the cage, but not too -close, for fear that she should frighten the parrot. She answered the -parrot, and said, ‘Good morning, pretty Poll!’ and the parrot spoke -again and again, and said, ‘Good morning, pretty Bob!’ When grandmamma -came, Alice ran to her and told her, ‘Our parrot talks so nicely. I am -so glad. But his name is not Poll, it is Bob; for when I said, “Pretty -Poll,” he answered, “Pretty Bob.”’ And the parrot went on saying ‘Pretty -Bob’ and ‘Good morning’ several times; and afterwards he began whistling -and coughing, and seemed to wish to show the children all he could do -and speak. - -Beatrice jumped with joy, she was so happy that the parrot could talk, -and it was a long time before they liked to leave the verandah. - -After dinner they took some bits of biscuit to their parrot, which he -ate willingly from their fingers; but grandmamma reminded them to be -careful still, ‘for it may bite you when it snaps at its food.’ Beatrice -drew back her little hand, and was content to let Alice feed the parrot -alone. - -Alice tried every morning to be quicker in dressing herself, for she -could now do everything for herself, except fastening her little dress -behind; and when she was ready early, grandmamma let her feed and attend -to the birds; but when she was late, Mary did it. - -Alice liked to do it best herself; for the birds began to know her, and -she was seldom late in the morning now. And every morning she gave the -birds fresh seed in the little boxes, and clean water in the glasses, -and put some sand or fine gravel on the board; and little Beatrice tried -to help her as far as she could. - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -[Illustration] - - - - - CHAPTER XIV. - - THE KITTEN. - - -ONE Monday morning, Mrs. Dunne, who had come down to fetch the linen for -washing, sent Mary into the breakfast-room to ask if she might speak to -the young ladies; and as grandmamma allowed, Alice and Beatrice went to -speak to her. - -Mrs. Dunne had a small basket in her hand, which she held out to little -Beatrice, saying, ‘My little Bessie has sent you a kitten, miss; for -cook tells me that there is no cat in the house, and I hope that you -will take this.’ - -Beatrice took the basket and lifted the lid, and she and Alice saw such -a pretty little kitten lying curled up, half asleep. It was as white as -snow, and had a blue ribbon round its neck. The kitten got up and stood -in the basket ready to jump out; but Beatrice in her delight seized it, -and was going to run away with it, when Alice said— - -‘Wait, Beatrice, let me take it; you will frighten this dear little -kitten.’ - -‘But I want to show it to grandmamma,’ said the little girl, turning -back very unwillingly; ‘let me take it, please Alice.’ - -‘You may, only do not squeeze it,’ said Alice. - -Mrs. Dunne put the kitten nicely into Beatrice’s arms, and Beatrice -stroked the kitten, and the little creature began to purr and to rub its -nose against Beatrice’s hand. - -‘Thank you, Mrs. Dunne,’ said Alice, ‘please thank little Bessie, and -tell her it is the prettiest kitten in the world.’ And Beatrice said -‘Thank you’ too, and then both children went back to their grandmother -to show her the kitten. Grandmamma admired it very much, and told Mary -to bring some milk in a saucer for the kitten, and she did so. The -kitten seemed very hungry, for it lapped the milk up in a very short -time. - -‘I hope that pussy will not hurt the love-birds or your parrot,’ said -grandmamma; ‘for cats like to eat birds.’ - -‘Pussy must not eat our birds,’ said Alice, ‘or else we will send her -back again.’ - -‘But can we not teach the kitten not to go near the cages?’ said -Beatrice. ‘The love-birds hang too high for her, I think; and if she -goes to the parrot, he will peck Miss Pussy so hard with his sharp beak -that she will not go near him again.’ - -‘I am glad that we have a cat at last,’ said grandmamma; ‘for there are -several mice in my storeroom, and yesterday I saw one in the -dining-room, eating some of the seed Bobby had dropped on the carpet.’ - -‘Mary says that there are mice in her pantry too, and cook told Mrs. -Dunne that we wanted a cat very much in the house,’ said Alice. - -‘Then it is a very good thing that we have this cat,’ said Beatrice. -‘What name shall we call the kitten, grandmamma?’ - -‘As I hope that she will catch all our mice, shall we call her Mouser?’ - -‘Oh yes, grandmamma. Mouser is such a pretty name for her;’ and Beatrice -ran to her kitten, and called her ‘Mouser’ several times. - -The kitten was sent into the kitchen during the children’s lessons; but -as soon as these were over, Alice and Beatrice asked leave to go and -fetch it, and after they had played with the cat some time, grandmamma -told them they must go out for a walk. - -Alice and Beatrice kissed their dear little puss, and bade her good-bye, -and went out with Mary for their walk; and on their return, Mary went to -her dinner, and the little girls played with Mouser up and down the -gravel walk. - -Alice, meanwhile, was running her hoop down some of the sloping walks, -and liked especially to make her hoop hop down the stone steps of each -of the different terraces. Alice was able to keep her hoop from falling, -although she made it jump down every step; and she was very proud of -doing this. - -Wolf, the great dog, was chasing round and round the garden, now barking -at some sparrows, and now at Alice’s hoop; then Alice and Wolf had a -race together, and when they both came to the gravel walk where Beatrice -was playing with her kitten, Wolf gave a growl, and was going up to the -cat, which was in Beatrice’s arms; but Pussy was quicker than Wolf, for -with one leap she sprang up a tree close by, and was in the branches in -a minute. - -Beatrice gave a cry of fear, for Wolf had startled her by coming up so -suddenly; and then his attack on her dear little kitten made her quite -afraid, and, half crying, Beatrice began to scold Wolf, and to call him -a very naughty dog. - -Alice soon came up, and took hold of Wolf by the collar, for he was -barking and jumping up at the tree where the kitten had taken shelter; -but Wolf would not attend to Alice; and Beatrice was more frightened -about her little cat, and began to cry. Grandmamma had heard the noise, -and came running to help the children, and was soon able to make Wolf -leave the tree. As soon as the dog was gone away, grandmamma went to the -tree, and lifted down the trembling kitten, who seemed glad to take -refuge in her arms. - -Alice had called Wolf away; and little Beatrice followed grandmamma -through the open window into the house, and was very glad to have her -little Mouser safe indoors again. - -‘We must teach Wolf to be kind to pussy,’ said grandmamma to Beatrice, -giving her the kitten to take upstairs. - -‘Please do, grandmamma,’ replied Beatrice, ready to cry again; and she -ran upstairs to take off her things, and to tell Mary all that had -happened. - -Grandmamma went back to Alice, who was standing quietly on the gravel -walk with her hoop in one hand and holding Wolf by the collar with the -other. - -‘You are a brave little girl,’ said grandmamma, ‘and have kept Wolf in -good order.’ - -Grandmamma then began to scold Wolf, and to talk to him; and the big dog -looked wistfully into his mistress’s face, as if he understood what she -said. - -‘But come in now, my Alice; it is late, and dinner is waiting.’ And they -went indoors. - - -[Illustration] - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -[Illustration] - - - - - CHAPTER XV. - - INSTINCT OF ANIMALS. - - -‘GRANDMAMMA, will you tell me,’ asked Alice one day, ‘how the geese can -know when bad weather is coming? Ellen Laurence told me that they knew.’ - -‘They certainly do know, I believe, my dear Alice,’ replied her -grandmamma. ‘God has given animals the instinct to foresee changes of -weather.’ - -‘But what is instinct?’ inquired Alice. - -‘Instinct is a knowledge that comes of itself. It is a gift natural to -animals, given, as I said before, by God; and thus animals know when -storms and bad weather are coming, and when an earthquake is about to -take place. Even dogs will try and give warning, when the house they -live in is in danger of falling; and it is a well-known fact that rats -will desert a leaky ship, birds will not build their nests in a falling -tree or any other dangerous place. I could tell you several stories of -the instinct of animals.’ - -‘Will you, then, tell us some stories about it, dear grandmamma?’ said -both the little girls. - -Grandmamma thought a little, and then began as follows:— - -‘There was an old woman, who lived all alone in a very old cottage; she -had a little dog, who was very fond of her, and always slept at the foot -of her bed. One stormy evening in autumn the old woman was washing her -feet in a tub close to the fire, before going to bed. The little dog ran -out of the house and ran in again; at last he came up to the old woman, -and barked at her, and whined, and then ran out of the house again. The -old woman took no notice of her dog, but continued washing her feet; but -the dog came in again, and looked uneasy and restless, and barked, and -at length he took hold of the woman’s dress with his teeth, and tried to -pull her away. The old woman pushed him away, and gave him a little slap -on his head, and told him to be quiet, and the dog ran out again on to -the road howling and whining; but he came back directly, and seemed -quite furious, for he seized the old woman by her clothes, and pulled -and tore, and looked so wild and strange, that his mistress took her -feet hastily out of the water, put them into her slippers, and followed -her dog through the open cottage door on to the road, to see what could -be the matter. She had hardly reached the road when a dreadful loud -noise made her turn round, and to her terror she saw that the chimney of -her old cottage had fallen in and part of the roof; she looked through -the still open door, and saw that her chair and tub had been crushed by -the falling bricks and mortar, and she knew that she herself had been -thus mercifully saved from being killed, thanks to the fidelity and -instinct of her little dog.’ - -‘What a nice story, dear grandmamma!’ said Alice; ‘and how clever the -dog was! But will you tell us some more about the cleverness of animals? -Are other animals as clever as dogs?’ - -‘Yes, dear child, many instances are told of the sagacity or cleverness -of other animals; but I think that dogs are the cleverest, for when -people have been buried in the snow, dogs are sent to find them out.’ - -‘Pray tell us how, grandmamma,’ begged Alice. - -‘There are some very high hills or mountains in other countries, much -higher than our hills here, which are nearly always covered with snow, -and so cold that the snow is seldom melted. These mountains are called -the Alps, and divide France and Switzerland from Italy. (You will -remember, dear Alice, the chain of mountains you looked at in your map -this morning.) Travellers who are obliged to cross these high mountains -often lose their way in the deep snow, and at last get covered with -snow, and they would die, and indeed often do die, in the snow and cold. -On stormy and snowy nights, when travellers are exposed to greater -danger, good men, monks, who live on those mountains, go out with a -number of clever dogs in search of those people who may have lost their -way. These dogs, by dint of scratching and smelling at the snow, are -able to find out where the poor traveller has fallen, and has been -buried by the snow. They bark whenever they find one, and the good monks -come to their help, and dig out the half-frozen traveller, who otherwise -must have died.’ - -After listening attentively, Alice said— - -‘How wonderful it is! I did not know that dogs were so clever and so -useful.’ - -‘But are cats as clever?’ asked Beatrice. - -‘Cats are very knowing; but I do not think they have done so many clever -deeds as dogs; and people think that cats do not love their masters or -mistresses so much as dogs do.’ - -‘But how did little Mouser know how to climb up the tree when Wolf came -near her?’ - -‘That knowledge was natural to her; she knew by instinct that a dog -would hurt her, and therefore sprang up the tree as high as possible to -be out of his reach. - -‘Wild animals are often much more knowing than those animals that live -with us. A young horse that has not been driven long will find his way -often much better in the dark than his driver; but an old horse, who has -been used to obey the rein all his life, does not trouble himself about -the road he is going, and goes wherever the rein guides him.’ - -‘How very odd that is!’ said Alice. - -‘I will tell you a little tale of one of my horses in Russia. It was -about the end of April, I think, when the spring was beginning, and the -winter just over. The snow was gone, and so was the ice on the rivers, -except in some snug ditches, where ice was still to be found. You -remember that I have told you that the winter in Russia lasts nearly six -months. - -‘The grass was beginning to grow, the birds beginning to sing and to -build their nests; but the roads were in a very bad state with soft mud -and deep pools of water. Well, one evening about six o’clock, the -bailiff’s wife came to me, and told me that her brother-in-law, who -lived in the valley close to the sea-coast, was very ill; and there were -no doctors near, and I was accustomed to go and visit the sick, and give -them medicine. So the woman begged me to go with her that evening to see -the sick man. - -‘I asked her how we could go with such roads, and she said that if I -would let her, she could drive one of my horses in her own little light -cart, for no carriage would be safe. - -‘A good horse was soon put to the cart, and I mounted the cart and let -the woman drive me. We had six good miles to drive—down hill at first -from very high ground (for I lived on a cliff that overlooked the sea), -and then through a very wild forest and some wilder bush-land. The light -cart and my willing horse took us safely there. I saw my patient and -gave him the medicines he required, and then we began our drive home. - -‘But the daylight had faded, and it was nearly dark; we could not -distinguish our road from several others that went in many directions -across the wood. The bailiff’s wife was frightened, and soon owned to me -that she could not see to drive. But I was not uneasy, for I knew my -horse; so I told her to leave the reins quite loose, and to let the -horse take us home. She obeyed my order very unwillingly; and the horse, -feeling his head quite free, made a sudden turn into the right road, for -we were already on a wrong one, and from that moment we went safely on. - -‘We had to go through a small brook where the water was rather deep; the -horse chose the safest road through the water, where the banks were the -lowest; he took us over a rather dangerous ditch, where the boards that -had served as a sort of bridge had been broken down in the winter, and -were partly supported by some frozen earth and ice; and then, when we -reached the firmer, better road, leading up the hill, my good horse -trotted steadily till he brought us safe to my own house door. - -‘You may easily think that I ordered my horse a good supper of oats.’ - -‘Oh, grandmamma, why did you not bring that nice horse here? We should -have so liked to have him here.’ - -Grandmamma smiled and said, ‘Dear Alice, that is so long ago, he cannot -be alive.’ - -‘Tea is ready, ma’am,’ said Mary, opening the door. - -‘Tea!’ said Alice; ‘we have only just had dinner. How quickly the -afternoon has gone! I do so like to listen to your stories, grandmamma; -and look, I have finished hemming my tea-cloth. I thought before that it -never would be done.’ - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -[Illustration] - - - - - CHAPTER XVI. - - LENGTH OF DAY IN RUSSIA AND FINLAND. - - -THE autumn had come, and with it bad weather; storms and rain had come -too; but Alice and Beatrice found the days pass always happily. - -They were rarely prevented going out, at least for a short time, every -day; for the broad terrace of the sunny garden was always dry; and there -they played with their favourite dog and kitten, and ran up and down -with them. - -Wolf and Mouser had become good friends, and played together. When Wolf -pretended to go to sleep, Mouser would creep up softly and slyly to him, -and, putting out a soft paw, would lift one of the dog’s ears; whereupon -Wolf suddenly awoke, shaking his ears with a friendly bark; then Mouser -scampered away and hid behind a bush till Wolf passed, then she rushed -out and leaped upon the dog’s back, to Beatrice’s great delight. - -Wolf seemed fond of the playful kitten, and let her play with him, and -even eat from the same plate. - -Alice and Beatrice still ran races with their hoops up and down the -broad gravel walk, down the sloping paths, and round the garden, and up -again to the wide terrace. - -Grandmamma was either walking in the garden or sitting at one of the -windows overlooking it. - -Indoors their pretty parrot was a never-failing source of pleasure to -both the children. - -The love-birds they did not care for much, and left them to their -grandmamma. - -The parrot now answered them when they spoke, and repeated all that the -children had taught him. He imitated every sound he heard: he barked -like Wolf, he mewed like the cat, he called ‘cuckoo’ like the clock; for -in the dining-room there was a pretty German clock carved in black wood, -where a little cuckoo came out of a little door in the clock, and called -‘cuckoo’ as many times as the hour. One day he startled Beatrice by -coughing like grandmamma, for she could not find out for a long time who -it was that had coughed. Mary told her how frightened she had been one -morning, on going into the dining-room, in the dark, to hear ‘Who is -there?’ whispered so low, but so like some one speaking, that she was at -first quite afraid. Sometimes the parrot tried to whistle a tune, which -he had heard on board ship, no doubt, and he really did it very well. - -The parrot liked the little girls to come and talk to him, and was very -tame to them. He always greeted them when they came down to breakfast -with a loud ‘Good morning;’ and he waited patiently for a piece of -biscuit or sugar, which Beatrice never forgot to give him. - -Whilst Alice attended to his food and cleaned out the cage, Beatrice -opened the cage door, and the parrot came out, and hopped outside, and -let Beatrice smooth down his pretty grey feathers, and he put his beak -against her hand, but he never bit her little fingers. - -‘Grandmamma,’ said Alice, ‘you told me once that the days in Russia were -so very long in summer and so very short in winter. How much longer and -shorter are they than our days here?’ - -‘The longest day here in England, which is June the 21st, is reckoned to -be sixteen hours and thirty-four minutes long. Now, can you reckon how -much remains out of twenty-four hours for the night?’ - -‘Oh, grandmamma, that is very difficult.’ - -‘Well, then, I will tell you, seven hours and twenty-six minutes. Now in -Russia, or I should better say in that part of Russia where I lived, the -longest day was about nineteen or twenty hours long; and as there is a -long twilight, which comes before the rising of the sun, and follows its -setting, there is scarcely any darkness, and everybody can go to bed -without a candle.’ - -‘What is twilight, grandmamma?’ - -‘Twilight is an uncertain second light, or a light that is something -between sunlight and night. - -‘The peasants, or poor people, who work in the fields, rise with the sun -in summer, and go to bed with it; but as the night is too short to rest -them enough after their many hours of labour, they divide the day into -three parts for their work, making a long rest from eight till ten for -their breakfast, and from one to four or five in the afternoon for their -dinner, and then work till quite late at night. They sleep generally -once in the day, which is very necessary for them. - -‘One beautiful summer day, in the month of June, I crossed the Gulf of -Finland, from Helsingfors to Revel, in a steamboat belonging to the -Crown, which was much slower than a common passenger steamer, as all -things belonging to the Russian Crown are very ill managed. - -‘Look at the map, my Alice, and you will see that Helsingfors lies more -to the north of Revel; and thus the days there in summer are longer -still, and the days in winter shorter, for the more north we go, the -longer are the days in summer and shorter in winter. - -‘Helsingfors is a strange town, with narrow arms of the sea running into -it and partly round it, so that the largest ships can come close to the -quay or landing-place and to the streets. It is nothing but rock, not -cliffs like ours here, but immense rounded lumps of granite, piled like -monster stones one upon the other. No grass—nothing, in short, but moss -can grow in the crevices; but the people are very industrious, and they -have brought earth in their little boats, and have made gardens on the -rocks, and planted flowers and shrubs. The spring is very late there, -the winter very long; for the autumn comes early, so that the summer is -very short. No corn can grow on that rocky coast; but stunted fir-trees -manage to spring up in sheltered cracks and crevices, and force their -roots between the rocks. - -‘Farther inland there is more earth and less rock: but little corn is -grown in this cold country, and most of the corn for bread is brought -over the sea to Finland, and in exchange the Finns sell salted fish and -wood from the forests in the interior of the country; and splendid -blocks and pillars of granite are sent to St. Petersburg from Finland. - -‘You would be amused if you could see the loaves of bread the Finns make -during the summer for the whole year. These loaves are large flat rings, -which are baked as hard as ships’ biscuit. They are strung on poles, and -in summer hang up outside the house in the sun, and in winter across the -ceiling in the kitchen, and are used as they want them.’ - -‘But how do the people eat this hard bread?’ - -‘These rings are broken into small pieces, with a hammer, I believe, and -are soaked in the soup or milk that they have. - -‘But I have forgotten that I was telling you about my crossing the gulf. -Well, we left Helsingfors about six o’clock in the evening, and instead -of reaching Revel at ten, we did not arrive there till between one and -two in the morning. All the passengers remained sitting on deck the -whole time; it was not dark any part of the time, but there was a -strange soft light in the sky, which was delightful. As we approached -Revel, which looks beautiful from the sea, and stands high, above a fine -bay, the sun rose, which made it still more beautiful. There were but -few passengers on board; and when we had landed, they dispersed quickly -to their different homes near the harbour. I alone had to cross the -whole length of the little old town to reach my home on the high hill or -cliff which forms part of the town, and overlooks the sea. - -‘A young Russian sailor shouldered my bag: my box was left at the -custom-house to be examined, for no one beside the guard was awake -there; and, followed by this man, I walked through the deserted silent -streets, where cats and jackdaws and pigeons were enjoying their freedom -undisturbed. - -‘It was a strange walk at that early hour of the morning, and pleased me -much. I could not help thinking how little real care was taken of the -sleeping town—not that it seemed necessary, spite of all the orders of -its jealous, suspicious Emperor; for, only when I reached the square at -the end of my long walk, I found two sentinels pacing up and down in -front of the governor’s house, and they were the first and only sign of -that strict Russian care which the Emperor thinks he enforces throughout -his large empire. - -‘How easily could any enemy have entered the sleeping town! and any one -could have opened the unfastened doors and shutterless windows of each -silent house; but there is one comfort in that part of the country, -robberies and housebreaking are not known, and my doors and windows were -never fastened even in the long dark nights.’ - -‘But there are no robbers here?’ asked Alice, anxiously. - -‘No, my dear child; in beautiful Devonshire, at least in this part of -it, we are as safe as in the Baltic provinces, where Revel lies.’ - - -[Illustration] - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -[Illustration] - - - - - CHAPTER XVII. - - PATIENCE AND PERSEVERANCE MAKE ALL THINGS EASY. - - -‘WHEN will Christmas come?’ asked Alice one morning, instead of -attending to her sum. - -‘Christmas will come very soon, Alice, but you must think of your sum -now,’ said grandmamma. ‘I cannot talk to you about anything till your -lessons are over.’ - -‘Please, grandmamma, tell me first how many weeks there are till -Christmas?’ asked Alice. - -‘Attend to your sum, Alice,’ repeated her grandmamma. But Alice instead -of obeying began to cry, and said— - -‘I cannot do this sum, it is so difficult.’ - -‘Bring your slate here;’ and Alice did so, and grandmamma said, ‘What is -difficult?—show me.’ - -‘I do not know what nine times seven are?’ - -‘Not know what nine times seven are? Think a little, dear child; you -know it well, because you said your multiplication of nine to me only -yesterday. What is seven times nine?’ - -‘Seven times nine are sixty-three; but I want to know what nine times -seven are?’ - -‘The same thing—sixty-three!’ - -‘So it is;’ and Alice laughed, but soon began to cry again; and when -grandmamma asked her what was the matter now, she only sobbed the more, -and could not speak at first. At last she said with many a sob,’ I -cannot learn this long piece of poetry, and do these three sums, and -learn my spelling, in time to go out with you this morning.’ - -‘Why not, my little girl?’ said grandmamma, gently. ‘I have never seen -you shed a tear over your lessons before.’ - -‘Because—because—’ and Alice began to cry again. - -‘Crying will not help you, Alice; wipe away those naughty tears and -listen to me. - -‘I know that you did not begin your lessons when I told you, for you -remained talking to your parrot, and lost some time. But if you make -haste and begin, and if you do not cry, you will do them easily. Look at -the clock; you see that you have two hours, for I am not going out till -twelve; now try and waste no more time. - -‘But you must not try to do all at once, or even to think of all at -once; begin and do each in its turn. Learn your piece of poetry first, -and think only of that; and when you know it, look at the clock, but not -before, and see how long you have been, then take your two other sums, -and do them without looking off your slate. Your spelling will not take -you long. - -‘Try and do exactly as I tell you, and let no tears fall on your book or -slate.’ - -Alice smiled, and giving grandmamma a kiss, sat down with her book in -hand, and in less than half an hour she had learnt three verses of her -piece of poetry by heart. She then took her slate, saying to herself, ‘I -like to do sums, and so does grandmamma,’ and one by one she did them, -then proved them right, all but one figure in the last, it was always -wrong. ‘I shall never be ready,’ said the little girl again; but on -second thoughts she resolved to _try_, and in a few minutes she found -out her mistake, and now all the sums were right. - -Her spelling was quite easy; she had only to read the words over twice, -and she knew them all. And when she looked at the clock, Alice saw that -she had been but little more than one hour; and taking her books and -slate, she ran full of joy to her grandmamma. - -‘I am ready, grandmamma; I have finished everything. I know my lessons; -may I say them to you now? I am so glad I did as you told me.’ - -‘I too am very glad, my dear child,’ said her grandmamma, kissing her -tenderly. - -Alice then said her lessons extremely well, and her sums were praised. -Then her grandmamma said, ‘You must never think of _how_ much you have -to do, without remembering how much time you have to do it in.’ - -From this time little occurred to tell of; but the little girls were -very happy, and liked to stay with their grandmamma in the country -still, although the storms of autumn had stripped the trees of their -leaves, and the winter was coming on, and the garden had no flowers or -fruit. - -The sun, however, still shone bright, and the weather still was very -mild; and they were able, nearly daily, to take longer walks than in the -summer, and go much farther among the pretty valleys and high hills of -Devonshire, and they learned to love their grandmamma’s pretty home more -and more. - -The two little girls looked forward to Christmas with great delight, for -it was to bring their dear mamma to them. - -Alice and Beatrice bid their little readers now good-bye, wishing them -as happy a Christmas as they hope to have themselves. - - -[Illustration] - - - - - UNWIN BROTHERS, THE GRESHAM PRESS, CHILWORTH AND LONDON. - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - _A CATALOGUE OF - - NEW & POPULAR WORKS_, - - - AND OF BOOKS - - FOR CHILDREN, - - SUITABLE FOR PRESENTS, SUNDAY SCHOOL LIBRARIES, AND PRIZES. - - -[Illustration] - - - NEW YORK: - E. 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