Janet's boys

by Annette Lyster

"Out with you now, and run home. I want to speak to Mrs. Price."

The boys tumbled out, clutching their bags. Jacob went to the lodge: when he came back, the boys were gone. They had run across the road and scrambled over the low fence into a field, where they hid, until Jacob came out and put his horse into a brisk trot.

"We won't go by that road, because we'd meet him coming back," said Frank. "We'll go along by the wall; it's nice and shady, too. By-and-by, we'll buy some bread, and ask the way to Liverpool. This bag is very heavy."

"So is mine," said Fred; "but come along. It's very jolly!"

Away they went—poor Janet's babies!

"WE'LL GO ALONG BY THE WALL."

[CHAPTER VII.]

THE BOYS' ESCAPE.