The house itself is dull, but I suppose you will be a good deal out of doors.

I have hired a pony, which will be here to-day from Poole, and I have arranged with Watson, a fisherman at Swanage, that you can go out with him in his fishing-boat whenever you are disposed.

It is three miles from here, but you can ride over on your pony and leave it at the little inn there till you come back.

I am sorry to say I do not know any boys about here; but Mabel Withers, the daughter of my neighbor and friend the clergyman of Bilston, the village just outside the lodge, has a pony, and is a capital rider, and I am sure she will show you over the country.

I suppose you have not had much to do with girls ?" he added with a smile at seeing a slight expression of dismay on Ralph's face, which had expressed unmixed satisfaction at the first items of the programme.
"No, sir; not much," Ralph said.