"But hark, I hear a roaring." "Yes," said Malleville; "it is the oven; they are going to bake." The back of the oven was so near to the partition wall which formed one side of the sitting-room, that the sound of the fire could be heard through it.

The mouth of the oven however opened into another small room connected with the kitchen, which was called the baking-room.

The children went out into the baking-room, to warm themselves by the oven fire.
"I am very glad that it is a cool day," said Phonny, "for perhaps mother will let us go to Mary Erskine's.

Should not you like to go ?" "Yes," said Malleville, "very much.

Where is it ?" The readers who have perused the preceding volumes of this series will have observed that Mary Bell, who lived with her mother in the pleasant little farm-house at a short distance from the village, was always called by her full name, Mary Bell, and not ever, or scarcely ever, merely Mary.