After surveying themselves in the glass—and immediately wishing that they had not done so—they quitted the shop and made their way to the railway station, to start for Charlie's home.
JACK'S WISH.
h, how I wish,' cried Jack, one day,
'That I was grown up quite,
For then I should not go to school,
Or have to keep some silly rule.
I'm sure they're made in spite.
Why should I go to bed at eight,
If I desire to sit up late?'
'Oh, very well,' his father said;
'Go to the Bank for me,
And sit, as I do, all day long—
I think you soon would change your song,
And long at school to be.
Just try to be content, my boy,
And then your life you will enjoy.'
A TIMELY RESCUE.
'It looks just as if we were going to have a thunder-shower,' Mrs. Marston said. 'I wish, George, you would find Rose and Elsie, and tell them to come home.'