Page 101 - Fairbrass

□f a church stood side by side with a monster

tea pot, whose next neighbour, a supposed
ship in full sail, was followed by a wonder­

fully shaped horse, and a solemn peacock,
stiff with pride. There really seemed to be

no end to these quaint devices, and between

them and the swiftly-flying martins, who
were busily feeding their downy, white-

throated young folk, peeping from their
little mud houses under gables that seemed

made on purpose to hold and shelter them,
Fairbrass divided his attention until he

became aware that his flowers were softly

whispering to each other, and then, Jike the
little gentleman he was, he at once told them

that he could hear them, and that they had
better keep their secrets to themselves.

‘ Oh, you are we) come to hear all that we are
saying,1 said * John-go-to-bed-at-noon/ wide

awake enough at this moment, ‘ We have

been talking over you and your affairs, and
we all advise you to into the B ig H ouse,’

Exhausted by this effort, John imme­
diately dropped off to sleep again ; but all