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"Clouds and sunsets?" asked Rachel, beginning to be interested

"Yes, differing every day Then I have the tamarisk and its inhabitants

There has been a tom-tit's nest every year since we came, and that

provides us with infinite aood as to float high enough for me to see them There is a wonderful

chared to look well into

it all"

"Yes; eyes and no eyes apply there," said Rachel

"We found a great prize, too, the other day Rosie!"

At the call a brown-haired, brown-eyed child of seven, looking like a

little fawn, sprang to thefrom the outside

"My dear, will you show the sphynx to Miss Curtis?"

The little girl daintily brought a box covered with net, in which a huge

apple-green caterpillar, with dashes of bright colour on his sides,

and a horny spike on his tail, was feasting upon ta to keep it "Yes, till it buries itself," said

the child "Aunt Ermine thinks it is the elephant sphynx"

"I cannot be sure," said the aunt, "ure of

it at Villars', but he had no book that gave the caterpillars Do you

care for those creatures?"

"I like to watch the about them

scientifically; Rachel does that"

"Then can you help us to the history of our sphynx?" asked Miss

Williams, with her pleasant look