The secret garden

*IT HAS COME !'249Are you sure you are not chilly, MasterColin? 'she inquired."No," was the answer." I am breathing longbreaths of fresh air. It makes you strong. Iam going to get up to the sofa for breakfast andmy cousin will have breakfast with me."The nurse went away, concealing a smile, to givethe order for two breakfasts. She found the servants'hall a more amusing place than the invalid'schamber and just now everybody wantedto hear the news from up-stairs. There was agreat deal of joking about the unpopular youngrecluse who, as the cook said, " had found hismaster, and goodfor him." The servants' hallhad been very tired of the tantrums, and the butler,who was a man with a family, had more thanonce expressed his opinionthat the invalid wouldbe all the better " for a good hiding."When Colin was on his sofa and the breakfastfor two was put upon the table he made an announcementto the nurse in his most Rajah-likemanner."A boy, and a fox, and a crow, and two squirrels,and a new-born lamb, are coming to see methis morning. I want them brought up-stairs assoon as they come," he said. You are not tobegin playing with the animals in the servants' halland keep them there. I want them here."