children. "Grace is too young to cause me
much anxiety ; but still I seem to have made no
more impression upon her religious nature than I
could have done upon a running brook; and as
for Tom — " Here Aunt Faith's musings were
rudely interrupted by a shout and a howl.
Through the hall behind her came a galloping
procession. First, "Turk," the great Newfound-
land dog, harnessed to a rattling wagon, in which
sat " Grip," the mongrel, muffled in a shawl, his
melancholy countenance encircled with a white
ruffled cap ; then came Tom, as driver, and be-
hind him " Pete," the terrier, fastened by a long
string, and dragging Miss Estella Camilla Wales,
in her little go-cart, very much against his will.
" Miss Estella Camilla Wales " was Grace's favorite doll, and no sooner did she behold the
danger of her pet, than she sprang from the
sitting-room sofa and gave chase. But Tom
flourished his whip, old Turk galloped down the
garden-walk with the whole train at his heels,
and Miss Wales was whirled across the street
before Grace could reach the gate.
