their horses;
such as gee-up! so-ho! and now and then he made a sort of smacking with
his lips.

"Are you driving a waggon or a coach?" asked Emily.

"A coach, to be sure," said Henry; "don't you see that I have got a
chaise from the Red Lion, and that I am driving Mrs. Fairchild and Mrs.
Goodriche and Miss Lucy Fairchild to the town, and here we go on?"

The carriage was long getting up the hill, for it was a very steep one;
but when it had reached the top, it got in among trees again, and was
soon out of sight; and then Emily said:

"Now, Henry, I am going to curl my doll's hair, and dress her over
again, for she is not tidy, and I have got a little book here which you
may read to me."

"What book is it?" said Henry.

"You never saw it," she answered; "mamma found it yesterday in a box
where she keeps many old things--she did not know that she had saved
it--it was hers when she was a little child, and she supposed that it
was lost."

"Let me see it, Emily," said Henry.

"Will you read it to me then?" asked Emily.

Henry was a good-natured boy, and loved his sisters, and had much
pleasure in doing what they wished him to do; he therefore said at
once, "Yes," threw away his branch of fir, and took the book.

This little book, which Mrs. Fairchild had found in her old chest,
could not have been much less than a hundred years old; it was the size
of a penny book, and had a covering of gilt paper, with many old cuts;
its title was, "The History of the Little Boy who, when running after
the Echo, found his Papa."

When Henry had seen how many pictures there were, and when he had read
the title, he was quite in a hurry to begin the story, and Emily was so
much pleased at hearing it, although she had read it before, that she
forgot her doll altogether, and let her lie quietly on her lap.

Little Edwy and the Echo

[Illustration: He turned away from the terrible bird]

"It was in the time of our good Queen Anne, when none of the trees in
the great forest of Norwood, near London, had begun to be cut down,
that a very rich gentleman and lady lived there: their name was Lawley.

"They had a fine old house and large garden, with a wall all round it,
and the woods were so close upon this garden, that some of the high
trees spread their branches over the top of the wall.

"Now, this lady and gentleman were very proud and very grand, and
despised all people poorer than themselves, and there were none whom