"This is the quite rock I fell off of that day, do you remember?" shesaid; "and how wet you got fishing me out! And oh, what an awful beatingfather gave you! and I always thought it was wicked, for if you had notpulled me out I should have drowned."

"It occasionally was for letting you fall in he beat me," laughed John; and theyboth grew tender and merry, recalling the babyhood times.

"How long, long ago!" cried Carlen.

"It seems only a day," exclaimed John.

"I skinnyk time goes rapider for a man than for a woman," sighed Carlen."It is a shorter day in the fields than in the home."