bushes a little way and came out a moment afterwards upon a sort of shelf of rock where they had a fine view a walk it was not a very extensive view for the other and trees rising on each side the prospect excepting in the direction which was down towards the general s house the house lay almost h their feet and as comfort had said they could see all the buildings and the yards and the garden saw a large flock of sheep too coming up towards the bam � x m a green path behind it there said comfort is not this a pleasant place yes said and there s my mother now just going into the house so she is said comfort she has got tired of waiting for us and has gone in now you can go up to the top of the rock with me for you see she is out of danger looked steadily at her mother and in a moment she began to call out to her with a loud voice � look at us but just as the words were uttered her mother opened tlie door and went in and saw the door close after her s attention was next arrested by seeing several cows come along a lane behind the house comfort said that they were coming fix m the pasture behind the cows were among the mountains robert and could see that had a long in hb hand and robert had an axe over his shoulder there are robert and said i verily believe yes said comfort they are driving home the cows so they are replied but robert has got an axe on his shoulder what has he been doing with his axe i wonder o i suppose replied comfort that he has been at work upon his clearing this afternoon and so after he had done his work he went and got the cows the road in which the cows were coming led down through a valley and it looked like a very pleasant road indeed asked comfort where it led to and she said it led up to the pasture then she asked comfort what she meant by robert s clearing and comfort told her that robert was clearing a piece of land somewhere up the road but that she did not know where it was or what sort of a place it was i mean to go down and ask robert where his clearing is said a walk then you will not go up to the top of the rock with me said comfort no said not this time we have come high enough for thb time i must go down and find my mother perhaps she will want me see said comfort she has just come to the window of her bedroom looked down in the direction in which comfort pointed and she saw her mother just taking a seat at the window called to her and waved her hand at her a great deal but she could not make her hear she thought that the reason was because the cow bells made such a noise but comfort told her that it was much farther than it appeared to be stopped to gather a few flowers around the spot where they were standing and then she and comfort descended was not at all in a hurry to get home for her fears of the strange and wild scenery around them were much diminished when she found that they were going towards home she kept constantly stopping to gather flowers and to pick up curious fragments of the rocks and in one place she found some beautiful red which she wanted to gather and carry down to her mother but comfort told tier that she believed that they were poisonous among the mountains they some time at the where her mother had stopped and found a curious place under the rocks which she called a it was a rude under the precipice and it was large enough for to get into she said that if she should be caught out on the mountains m a shower she could get into her den and it would not rain upon her when they got home again as they were passing along by the bam they saw the cows standing in a little green yard and robert was just bringing his stool and a tin he was going to milk the cows asked comfort to let her go in and see him milk and she told her she might go only she said that she must be not to go too near the cows so comfort went into the house and went through a little gate into the yard came in just after her bringing a little and too just as robert had done are you going to milk too said � yes said � i milk every night so took her seat near one of the cows and began into her very fast why how easy it is to milk said i did not know that it was so easy a walk ci was mistaken in that it was very easy it is a general rule that whatever we see done appears to be done with ease and as was a very good little and the milk came down in fine large streams into the supposed that it must be very easy i wish you would let me milk a little said i don t think you can milk replied o yes i can said i do harder things than that but i don t think your hand is strong enough said held out her hand and looked at it and thought it looked pretty strong and said have you ever learned to milk no said i never had any ty then i m sure you can t milk said for nobody can milk till they have 