No Father [Illustration] I woke, and creeping out of my lair, and peeping from the door of the barn, which looked into the cornyard, found that the sun was going down.

I had already discovered that I was getting hungry.

I went out at the other door into the close or farmyard, and ran across to the house.

No one was there.

Something moved me to climb on the form and look out of a little window, from which I could see the manse and the road from it.