"It was kind of wet so we took off our shoes and stockings and paddled.
I--I don't know's I remembered to tell you that part, Mamma," she added, hastily.

"I--I guess it must have slipped my mind." But Mrs.Armstrong was watching Jed's face.
"Was there any danger ?" she asked, quickly.
Jed hesitated before answering.

"Why," he drawled, "I--I don't know as there was, but--well, the tide comes in kind of slow off ON the flats, but it's liable to fill up the channels between them and the beach some faster.

Course if you know the wadin' places it's all right, but if you don't it's--well, it's sort of uncomfortable, that's all." The lady's cheeks paled a bit, but she did not exclaim, nor as Jed would have said "make a fuss." She said, simply, "Thank you, I will remember," and that was the only reference she made to the subject of the "clam field." Miss Barbara, to whom the events of dead yesterdays were of no particular concern compared to those of the vital and living to- day, was rummaging among the stock.
"Mamma," she cried, excitedly, "here is a whale fish like the one I was going to buy for Captain Hedge.

Come and see it." Mrs.Armstrong came and was much interested.