and her brothers went to the garden, and she and Harry seated themselves on the garden chair, whilst Andrew stood by the table mending his fishing-rod.

"Do tell us all," said Harry. "And what splendid buns you brought home from Mrs. Barrett's."

"Buns?" said Andrew; "do throw me one. Why, Lily, have you forgotten me?"

"No, you dear old boy," said Lily; "yours is put in a separate paper on your table. I thought you would be sure to go and see if I had brought you anything; but I will run and fetch it."

"Thank you," said Andrew.

"Lily brought the baby one too," said Harry, confidentially; "one of those beautiful twopenny ones. But nurse says he can't eat it, he is too young, and currants are very bad for babies. Lily was so disappointed; but here she comes."

She held out the paper to Andrew, who peeped eagerly inside, for he was especially fond of Milner buns.

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Oh, Lily, you were good to bring me one of those splendid ones," said Andrew.

Lily turned very red and faltered out, "I hope you won't be vexed with me, but I—I didn't buy that bun exactly for you. I had only sixpence to spend, and I bought four penny ones, and I thought as I had never given anything to baby

"All right," said Andrew; "so you gave it to me. He must have one when his teeth come; and now we Iwill divide it."

"No, no," exclaimed both the children.

had ours, and nurse and Anne theirs."

"We have

"Please, Lily, go on," said Harry, "and tell us what

you had for dinner the next day."

"I think we had some cold beef; and oh, Harry! such beautiful fried sausages, all put round a bank of potatoes, and such lots of cheesecakes and tartlets."

"I do wish I had been there," sighed Harry; "I do like sausages so."

"Yes, Harry, and none of us were ill; and I believe they are the very best things for children to eat. And when Andrew and I live together, I shall always have sausages when we invite children to come and stay with us; and pastry, I am sure, is one of the very best things too, especially cheesecakes. Then we had lots of nuts and walnuts, besides other things for dessert, and everything that mamma thinks will make us ill; and I am sure they did us good."

"Lily," called out Andrew, "when we have our little house together I shall be master. So I tell you at once. I shall forbid the sausages, the cheesecakes, and the nuts. Just think what they will cost, for everybody will eat so much. No, you must keep to boiled mutton and hasty. pudding, or we shan't have money enough."

"What a shame!" said Lily. "Well, never mind, they shall have beautiful buttered toast for tea, poor little things! and I shall learn to make some muffins.'

You will have guessed that the little baby who created so much excitement was the one alluded to as "Cæsar" in the first chapter.

About a year after this event Lily was invited to go again to Milner just at the time when the annual fair was held, which was a great delight to her, as she enjoyed seeing the shows and buying the pretty things there.

In the market-place at Milner lived a very eccentric old lady, called by her family "Cousin Nanny." She

was somehow related to Lily's father, and at her particular request stood godmother to Lily. As you cannot see her, for she has been dead a great many years, I think I must try and describe her appearance to you, for she was unlike any one that the Osborne children had ever seen. She was a very plain old lady, but had a peculiar and pleasant face. She was a little deformed, and shorter than most people. She always wore a black dress with a muslin handkerchief pinned over the body tight in at the waist, over which she wore a band; and upon her head, over her little tight curls, a very highcrowned cap, with a border of two deep frills round her face, and high bows standing up in front, resting on the crown. In fact, she was exactly like an old lady in some of the books of fairy stories for children; and as Lily and her cousins were walking about the fair with their servant, they saw the old lady with her funny cap standing at the window watching what was going on, and especially the children, who were deciding which shows they would like to go and see; for Lily had been to several lately at Bransworth, so she did not care to see "Miss Biffin, the wonderful Miss Biffin," again, or Napoleon on his cream-coloured horse," &c., &c. At last they were attracted by a man calling out and begging people to come and see a celebrated murderer take his trial for the murder of his sweetheart, and his execution.

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"Oh!" exclaimed Lily," do let us go and see that, for our servants often talk about it, and papa was there."

They each paid their pennies and took their places under the curtain, and peeped through the glasses allotted to them. The whole thing was gone through until they arrived at the last scene, where the unfortu

nate man was seen hanging by the neck with two or three people on the scaffold. And then the showman went on in his pompous voice describing it all, and when he said, "There stands the reverend gentleman who officiated on the occasion," Lily cried out—

"Oh no! You have made a mistake. My papa was the chaplain to the high sheriff, and he is very tall and very handsome, and this is quite a little man."

“That's all right, miss," replied the showman.

"Oh no," persisted Lily, "and I won't look again;" for she felt so indignant that the world should think her papa at all like that miserable-looking clergyman on the scaffold.

"Very well, miss," said the man. You do as you like about that, but the sooner you leave the better, for it will make room for others."

They then went on to another, the price of which, they were told, was twopence, and they paid their money and disappeared under the curtain. This show was exactly in front of Cousin Nanny's house. She still stood at the window, and to her surprise she saw Lily suddenly reappear from under the curtain, and the man who held it back seemed to be saying something very emphatically to her, and she was holding out her hand and looking very indignant. Cousin Nanny beckoned to her to come in, which she instantly did; the other children and servants, who had seen her go, remained behind to enjoy the show. Lily opened the front door and ran in. Cousin Nanny had by this time seated herself in her great highbacked chair near the fire, with her feet on a footstool, and a large Cyprus cat in front of her, purring on the rug, blinking its eyes every now and then, as if it were quite prepared to hear the explanation with its

mistress of what had seemed to be such very extraordinary conduct on the part of Lily.

"Come in and sit down," said Cousin Nanny, glancing towards the door, "and tell me why you and the man at the peepshow were having such a long conversation while your cousins were quietly inside."

Lily seated herself on one of the high chairs in front of Cousin Nanny, with her little legs dangling, and then began

"If you please, Cousin Nanny, we all went into the peepshow, and paid two pennies each, but directly I put my eye to the glass I remembered I had just seen it at our fair, so I told the man quite nicely that I was very sorry, and asked him to give me back my money, as I had seen it before. But he got quite angry, and said, 'No young lady had ever asked him to do such a thing before.' And I thought he would give it back to me to go and see another show; but he put it directly into his pocket, and then said, 'I never return money.'

Lily made Cousin Nanny laugh at the manner in which she imitated the man. Warming to the subject she continued, "I never knew such a shame in all my life." "No doubt you never did, my dear," said Cousin Nanny, "though your life has been a long one. Let me see-you are seven years old, are you not ?"

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'Yes, I am two months older than that." And then Lily told the story of the other showman, who had represented her papa as such a miserable-looking little man.

When Cousin Nanny had heard the story through, she said, "I am afraid, my dear, you will have many little troubles in life if you expect to have everything your own way. But when you grow older you will get wiser;" and then added, "When you have finished your