As for Emily, she repeated stories which she had learned from a new book called THE FLOWER PEOPLE, in which the snowdrops, the violets, the columbines, the roses, and all that lovely tribe are represented as telling their secrets to a little girl.

The flowers talked sweetly, as flowers should; and Edward almost fancied that he could behold their bloom and smell their fragrant breath.
Thus, in one way or another, the dark days of Edward's confinement passed not unhappily.

In due time his father returned; and the next evening, when the family were assembled, he began a story.
"I must first observe, children," said he, "that some writers deny the truth of the incident which I am about to relate to you.

There certainly is but little evidence in favor of it.

Other respectable writers, however, tell it for a fact; and, at all events, it is an interesting story, and has an excellent moral." So Mr.Temple proceeded to talk about the early days of OLIVER CROMWELL.
[BORN 1599 DIED 1658.] Not long after King James I.took the place of Queen Elizabeth on the throne of England, there lived an English knight at a place called Hinchinbrooke.