e with her brother. Mr. Richard Lee owned an estate about twenty miles from Rosevale. His lands had once been well cultivated, but now received very little attention, for medicinal springs had been

lieve she was chiefly welcome on account of the valuable little piece of property she brought with her. Tidy was just exactly what Mrs. Lee wanted to fill a place in her family, which she had never before been able to supply to her s

equired a pair of young, sprightly feet to run after little Lemmy to keep him out of mi

ival, Mrs. Lee instructed

o. See that Lemmy doesn't stuff things into his ears and no

hat flashing eye and heavy brow. Miss Matilda had protected her, as far as she was able, though without the child's knowledge, by

id her sister-in-law. "I find it doesn't work well to be too tende

as she is told, and I have never had occasion to punish her i

e; "but, I tell you, I take

ell inclined, an ugly and easily excited temper in a superior will provoke evil dispositions in them, and MAKE occasions of punishment. But in this case the mistress was evidently held

nd purposes she was received as the playmate and companion of Amelia and Susan. They were good-natured, agreeable little girls, and it was a pleasure rather than a task to walk to and from

Tidy. In the outer stood the spinning-wheel,-at which the old nurse wrought when not occupied with the children,-a small table, an old chest of drawers, and a few rude chairs. Some old carpets which had been discarded from the house were laid over the floors, and gave an air of comfort to the place. One shelf by the side of the fireplace h

she was pious, and from her lips it was that Tidy first heard the name of God. Would you believe it? Tidy had lived to be ten years old in this Christian land, and had never heard of the God who made her.

the negro nurse, as another link in that golden chain of love which was to draw her up out of t