ould be ungrateful indeed to
be otherwise.

In the spring, they removed to another house. It was in town, but
compared with the only one they had left, it seemed to be quite in the
country. For the street was not closely built up, and it stood in the
middle of a little garden, which soon became beautiful under the
transforming hands of Rose and her brothers. There was a green field
behind the house too, and the beautiful mountain was plainly visible
from it; and half an hour's walk could take them to more than one place,
where there was not a house to be seen. The house itself, seemed like a
palace, after the narrow brick one they had just left. It was larger
than they needed, Graeme thought, and the rent was higher than they
could well afford, but the garden was enough to content them with
everything else. It was a source of health, if not of wealth, to them
all, and a never failing source of delight besides. Their new home was
quite away from Mr Stirling's end of town, but he found time to come
and look at their garden every week or two; and his gifts of roots, and
seeds, and good advice were invaluable.

This was a short and pleasant summer to them all. It is wonderful how
much pleasure can be made out of the quiet every-day duties of life, by
young and happy people on the watch for pleasant things. To Will and
Rosie everything was delightful. The early marketing with Nelly, to
which Graeme and Arthur, and sometimes even Harry was beguiled, never
lost its charm for them. Harry had lived in town, long enough, to
permit himself to be a little scornful of the pleasure which the rest
took, in wandering up and down among the vegetables and fruits, and
other wares in the great market, and made himself merry over Rosie's
penchant for making acquaintance with the old French woman and little
children whom they met. He mystified Rose and her friends by his free
interpretation of both French and English, and made the rest merry too;
so it was generally considered a great thing when he could be induced to
rise early enough to go with them.

Sometimes they went in the early boats to the other side of the river, a
pleasure to be scorned by none on lovely summer mornings; and they would
return home with appetites ready to do honour to the efforts of Nelly
and Miss Beecher. Sometimes when a holiday came, it was spent by the
whole family, Nelly and all, at Lachine or the Back River, or on the top
of the mountain. All