Suppose you be brave, and try a little extra hard to be good.
Then mother'll love you an extra bit.

And what do you think we shall see soon?
such a lovely bit of blue sea with white ships on it.

Just you shut your eyes a little bit till it comes, I'll be sure to tell you." And sure enough, after Lancaster, mother gave a little cry, and Olly jumped up, and Milly came running over, and there before them lay the dancing windy blue sea, covered over with little white waves, running and tumbling over each other.

And on the other side of it, what did the children see?
"Mother, mother! what is it ?" cried Olly, pointing with his little brown hand far away; "is it a fairy palace, mother ?" "Perhaps it is, Olly; anyway, the hill-fairies live there.

For those are the mountains, the beautiful mountains we are going to see." "But how shall we get across the sea to them ?" asked Milly, with a puzzled face.
"This is only a corner of the sea, Milly--a bay.