CHAPTER IV.
A GARDEN SUNDAY-SCHOOL.
Springbrook village lay near Springbrook station.

It was a very small village, but those who lived in it thought it a very pretty one.

It consisted of the church, the vicarage, the doctor's house, three or four small private houses and a number of picturesque cottages.
The church stood at one end of the village in the middle of a beautiful churchyard and burying-ground, surrounded by fine trees-- flowering chestnuts and sweet-scented limes, while every here and there blossomed beautiful red May-trees, lilacs, laburnums, syringas and roses.

From this, the one street--lined on either side by little cottages, with here and there a small shop--led to the green, around which stood in irregular fashion pretty houses and large cottages with gardens before their doors.

The doctor lived in one of these houses, and the curate, Mr.Harburton, in another, and Miss Barley and Miss Grace Barley in a third, and all the houses looked out on the green and the road and across at each other, but all those who dwelt in them were so neighbourly and friendly, this did not matter at all.
Jessie thought the houses by the green were perfectly lovely, they had creepers and roses growing over them, and window-boxes full of flowers.