egan
doubtfully, 'but it may have been----'

He did not finish his sentence, for the old lady shook her head in
despair at him and hobbled off towards the house. Barbara watched her
retreating figure, and smiled gently to herself. Auntie Anna might pretend
as much as she liked that she was a dragon, but nothing could prevent
her looking like a fairy godmother!

Her father stroked her rough, tumbled hair caressingly, and smiled back at
her.

'What is it, Babe?' he asked.

The child gazed at him as he sat there, with the two boys clinging to him
as though they would never let him go again; and the whimsical look stole
into her bright little eyes, and lighted up the whole of her small impish
face.

'The magician has come back,' she said, with a happy laugh; 'and there
isn't room to _move_ in my fairy kingdom!'

THE STANDARD SCHOOL LIBRARY.

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These letters throw much light