part Little Streams, Little streams are light and shadow, Flowing through the pasture meadow, Flowing by the green wayside, Through the forest dim and wide, Through the , hamlet still and small— By the cottage, by the hall, By the ruined abbey still; Turning here and there a mill, Bearing tribute to the river— Little streams, I love you ever. They went home. Rosalie danced in, up the walk, and past the brown bed that she meant to beautify with her flowers, and she did not notice that Lilly stopped at the gate. " John, John," called Lilly, 4 ‘ wont you come with me ? I wont keep you quarter as long as Rosie did." John was cross and had lost his patience amid Rosalie's whims in:the greenhouse, but he could not resist the child's gentle ' pleading look, and he turned to go with her. ' Lilly Ward led the way, and, to 'John's astonishment, she went as fast as she could through an obscure street, and then into a still smaller one—only an alley—where the houses were scarcely larger than nut-sheps, and so close loge.ther that a squiriel could not get one out c ; • " Miss Lilly, Miss Lilly,, wbere ,are you going ?" called John; "'there are no flow ers in there." Lilly disappeared within the alley. •, John was juil'in time to see a tiny door way, and a gliinpse of Lilly as she went into it, s John stood sentinel at thedoor. Lilly went close to a woman with very white heir, who sat in a reeking-chair, and said something to. her. • ' The woman look - ed up—" Why, Miss Lilly, dear! bow you took me all of a sud den I reckon I was dreamin", and I thought 't was your grandmether, you See we was little girls together." • 44 Please make haste," urged Lillys"John won't wait but a minute." ",What are you pin.' to do with 'em:?" asked the woman. CC Please Mrs. Grey, just three or four, urged Lilly: Lilly. Thewotnan went to a tiny cupboard and 4 took from it a toy cup. "Here's all I've get. I used to think my gold beads were worth a deal,,,but I'd rather have these now any time," she said. " bring them back, every one, Mrs. Grey," urged Lilly, fearful lest her request should bedenied. The coveted " three or four" were in creased to " six", and, with her tiny parcel out of the tiny cup, Lilly was going „in haste, when Mrs. Grey stayed her: "Won't you stop and see Susan ?" "'Not today, thank you," but, with a sudden thought Lilly went to the cup and tilly Ward's Baguet. `dropped within it the money that had been given to her, and before Mrs. Grey saw what There they lay on the plot of green— had been done, Lilly was with John on the the- twa beds :justalike, only, that the way to.her home, earth it one was dried a little more in the