Page 36 - The Little sister of Wilifred

arrived, it was necessary to resign her­

self to the inevitable, — governesses, like

horses and dogs, being as she supposed
one of the results of settling down,

1L There seems to be something bad

that conies with everything that :s good,"
said this small philosopher, as she

watched Miss Weston's trunks being

carried into the house. “ When it ’s
summer there must be mosquitos, but

I fd rather have summer come in spite

of the mosquitos, and I fm glad we ’ve
settled down, even though I have to

have a governess. To be sure it is n’t

quite the same thing, because you can
put up nets and keep the mosquitos

out, or if they get in you can kill
'em ; but you have to he polite to a

governess/’

Wilifred always was very polite to
her governess, and they became good