Brown^s. And yet, after we got there,
when Jem had kissed his mother and sister,
dropping some tears as he did it, the sight
of dear Lucy, and " the darling little boy,''
as they called Georgy, and even the ap-
pearance of '^ the pretty cat,'' as they were
pleased to speak of me, seemed to raise
their spirits ; and when the tea and nice
cakes were set upon the table, and Georgy's
bright eyes sparkled with delight, and his
little lisping tongue seemed to have grown
all at once too long for his mouth, so that
he quite delighted them with his prattle,
and Mrs. Brown declared that she '^ never
seed sic a child in all her bom days," then,
I say, they did seem a very comfortable, if
not a happy party.
