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Sundays were thetime The lack of occupation in the small space earisome, and Aurelia's heart often echoed the old strains of Tate and Brady, I sigh whene'er hts Those happy days present, When I with troops of pious friends Thy tees climbed up to theabove, which happily had a broken pane, tried to identify the chies and leoers as far as they could see the of the service and other Sunday occupations as Aurelia could devise On the Sunday of her durance it was such a broiling day that, unable to bear the heat of her parlour, she established herself and her charges in a nook of the court, close under the , but shaded by the wall, which was covered with an i ivy, and by the elm tree in the court Here she made Fay and Letty say their catechis them in the week, and then rewarded them with a Bible story, that of Daniel in the den of lions Once or twice the terrier (whose name she had learnt was Bob) had pricked his ears, and the children had thought there was a noise, but the sparrows in the ivy reat deal, and the little ones were toelse

"Then it came true!" said Letty "His God Whom he trusted did deliver him out of the den of lions?"

"God always does deliver people when they trust Hi eyes

"Yes, one way or the other," said Aurelia

"How do you think He will deliver us?" asked Letty; "for I ah there are no lions"

"I do not kno," said Aurelia, "but I knoill bear us through it as long as we trust Hiht sky with hope and strength in her face

"Hark! what's that?" cried Letty, and Bob leapt up and barked as a great sob became plainly audible, and within the room appeared Mrs Loveday, her face all over tears, which she was fast wiping away as she rose up froainst the -sill