. Little helpers . ay, that it was exactly thesort of farm he meant to havewhen he was grown up; theonly difference he should makewould be to have the slide downthe side of the haymow a littlehigher, and to turn half the farm-house into a gymnasium. Mr. and Mrs. Allen, whoowned this land of enchantment,and let people live in it for six dollars a week, apiece, were kind, comfortable people, who likedto see their boarders eat heartily, and drink plenty of milk. They had two tall sunburnt boys, who did most of the farm work, except in the very busyseason, when three or four hiredmen: helped them.
. Little helpers . ay, that it was exactly thesort of farm he meant to havewhen he was grown up; theonly difference he should makewould be to have the slide downthe side of the haymow a littlehigher, and to turn half the farm-house into a gymnasium. Mr. and Mrs. Allen, whoowned this land of enchantment,and let people live in it for six dollars a week, apiece, were kind, comfortable people, who likedto see their boarders eat heartily, and drink plenty of milk. They had two tall sunburnt boys, who did most of the farm work, except in the very busyseason, when three or four hiredmen: helped them. And they hadtwo daughters, one a fine, handsomegirl, twenty years old, and the otherthree or four years older, and with nobeauty in her face but that of a verysweet and pleasant expression. Itwas this one, whose name was Ann,who showed the tired travellers totheir rooms, on the evening of their arrival, and waited on them while they ate their supper, andbrought a pitcher of fresh water and a lighted lamp, when she. 198 LITTLE HELPERS. heard Mrs. Leslie tell the children it was bedtime. She seemed surprised, they thought, when Mrs. Leslie gently thanked found, the next day, that the other daughter was named Julia, and as time went on, and they saw more and more of the daily life on the farm, they could not help noticing that, while Julia did her share of the general wrork cheerfully and well, it was always Annwho seemed to think oflittle uncalled-for kind-nesses and helps, althoughshe did this so quietly andunobtrusively, that it wassome time before they ob-served it. Her mother and sister were in the habit of asking her to just do this or that, to run upstairs or down-cellar for something; her father and the boys nearly always came to her for any chance bit of sewing they wanted done, and even the great watch dog and the sober old yellow cat seemed to take for granted that she should be the one to feed them. And the children saw that to all these calls upon her time a
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