re waiting for them to go to tea. Mr.
Fairchild kissed his little boy, and Lucy and Emily smiled to see him.

"Henry," said Mr. Fairchild, "you have had a sad day of it; but I did
not punish you, my child, because I do not love you, but because I do."

Then Mr. Fairchild cut a large piece of bread-and-butter for Henry,
which he was very glad of, for he was very hungry.

[Illustration: "_Behind the stable._"--Page 26.]

Story of an Unhappy Day

[Illustration: Lucy and Emily]

It happened that Mr. and Mrs. Fairchild had had nothing for a long time
to interrupt them in the care and management of their children; so that
they had had it in their power to teach them and guard them from all
evil influences. I will tell you exactly how they lived and spent their
time; Emily and Lucy slept together in a little closet on one side of
their mother and father's room; and Henry had a little room on the
other side, where he slept. As soon as the children got up, they used
to go into their father and mother's room to prayers; after which Henry
went with Mr. Fairchild into the garden, whilst Lucy and Emily made
their beds and rubbed the furniture; afterwards they all met at
breakfast, dressed neatly but very plain. At breakfast the children ate
what their mother gave them, and seldom spoke till they were spoken to.
After breakfast Betty and John were called in and all went to prayers.
Then Henry went into his father's study to his lessons; and Lucy and
Emily stayed with their mother, working and reading till twelve
o'clock, when they used to go out to take a walk all together;
sometimes they went to the schools, and sometimes they went to see a
poor person. When they came in, dinner was ready. After dinner the
little girls and Mrs. Fairchild worked, whilst Henry read to them, till
tea-time; and after tea Lucy and Emily played with their doll and
worked for it, and Henry busied himself in making some little things of
wood, which his father showed him how to do. And so they spent their
time, till Betty and John came in to evening prayers; then the children
had each of them a baked apple and went to bed.

Now all this time the little ones were in the presence of their father
and mother, and kept carefully from doing openly naughty things by the
watchful eyes of their dear parents. One day it happened, when they had
been living a long time in this happy way, that Lucy said to Mrs.
Fairchild, "Mamma, I think that Emily and Hen