Page 97 - Fairbrass

I am dumb and powerless/ He though):

so much about it all that he became quite
unhappy, and this at a time when the

dwellers in the Little House were more
than ordinarily merry. That ^ 5° °

no doubt been a great help. The young;
squire had been most satisfactory at the

garden-party for which he had helped to
pay ; he was the most devoted of lovers,

and the most generous of future brothers-
in-law, No wonder that he was popular,

or that the little household warmed itself
and grew glad under the sunshine of his

genial nature.
One day Fairbrass was especially vexing

his poor little brain on the question of the
bitter feud between his father and his grand­

father. He had gone out by himself to pick
wild-flowers, for it was his sister’s birthday,

and he had set his heart on giving her a
posy in which a specimen of each of the

pretty blossoms she loved to pluck and call
by their names should have its place. For
such a purpose he could hardly have found