And so nearly a year passed by, and brought the Daisy and her sister-flowerets to another spring.

FOOTNOTE:

[A] If this is considered far-fetched, the writer can only say that Betty's rendering of the name of Proudfoot was actually given by a domestic in her own family, and occasioned considerable bewilderment, till the quick wit of one of its members solved the riddle.


THE LOST FOUND.