May, who did not know what bashfulness was, 'I wish I
might go and see him, too. I should so like to know if he has ever seen
the island where Robinson Crusoe was wrecked.'

A peal of laughter greeted May's remark, but nevertheless her request
was granted.

Five minutes later she was chatting to the 'sailor man' as if she had
known him all her life.

'What do you think we have been doing this morning?' said little May,
after busily talking about a host of other things.

'I'm sure I don't know, little Missie,' replied the man.

'You would never guess, I am sure--we have been making pastry!'

'Pastry! have you, indeed?' said the pleasant-faced man, with a smile;
'well, now, that's a thing I could never make.'

'We couldn't have done it by ourselves; Mary helped us, you see,' said
truthful May.

'And who is Mary, little Missie, if I may ask?'

'Mary is our cook,' replied the child; 'she is _so_ kind and
good-natured. Her real name is Mary Greymore, and---- '

To May's surprise the sailor started to his feet.

'What!' cried he. 'Greymore, did you say?'

'Yes,' said May, looking startled. 'What's the matter, sailor man?'

'Nothing is the matter,' was the reply, given in a voice deep with
feeling; 'only, if what you say is true, I have found the sister I have
been looking for these many months past.'

Mary's joy at seeing her long-lost brother again was almost beyond
words; as for the Trevor family, they were scarcely less excited than
she.

It was found that James Greymore had been such a wanderer that none of
his sister's letters had ever reached him, and, as Mary herself had long
left her native village, the two had been quite out of touch with one
another.

'It is all through that lesson in pastry-making,' said Kitty, 'that Mary
found her brother. May, very likely, but for that, wouldn't have spoken
of Mary at all.'

'Then I was right,' laughed Elsie. 'I said Mary would have her reward,
and so she has, and well she deserves it, too.' M. I. H.

MARVELS OF MAN'S MAKING.

III--THE FIRST PUBLIC RAILWAY IN ENGLAND.

[Illustration: Stephenson's Portrait.]

In the middle of the eighteenth century, the Duke of Bridgewater, with
the aid of a great engineer named James Brindley, had increased the
prosperity of Manchester and Liverpool by constructing a canal to convey
merchandise cheaply and easily between them. Enterprising people, seeing
the great advantage of the canal, wished to follow this g