THE next morning, Richard came to say Taff wanted some new shoes, and he must go to the smith's; so Lucy and Arthur could not ride to-day. As it was a very fine morning, their Mamma said Susan should take them through the fields to Coombedown Copse, which was a very pretty small wood, and a favourite walk of theirs. Lucy took her little basket, and his Mamma lent Arthur one, as they had set their heart on bringing home some roots of the wood anemone the next time they went to the Copse. They each took hold of Susan's hand, and went jumping and dancing along as happy as two little children could be. They picked plenty of flowers, and Susan put a bunch of pretty grass in Lucy's bonnet, which she called a plume of feathers, and Arthur found two or three crows' feathers, which he stuck in his straw hat; Susan made Lucy a daisy chain, and when they came to some flags, which are a plant with a long straight leaf, she made Arthur a sword, which he flourished about to the great terror of the birds and flies. Presently they came to a bank in the shade, where were plenty of wood anemonies, and they filled one basket quite full of roots. It was a warm sunny day, and they began to be tired. Susan said, "We must not go much further, for we have had a good walk." "Oh! do let us sit down here, while I make up my cowslip wreath," said Lucy; and, Susan, do sing to us, please.” 66 Susan agreed to Lucy's wish, and sang the following wild ditty, to an air as wild. "Sing song! merry go round, Here we go up to the moon, oh! "With the penny I've found, So bright and round?' 'What shall you buy? A kite that will fly Up to the moon, all through the sky.' |