"God thought of you, and so I am here."

GEORGE MACDONALD.


DEAR LITTLE BROWN-EYED BESS.

A True Experience of Child-life.


DEAR LITTLE BROWN-EYED BESS.

I was working in my garden one day in the end of June,

The sun shone high in the clear blue sky, and the clock had just struck noon;

I mused o'er my earliest childhood—my earliest friends, and lo,