256 In Touch with Nature. 



inkling. They must wait patiently, and they did. 

 In due time I proudly appeared with my prize in 

 hand. " See there !" I cried in triumph, and they 

 all looked eagerly ; and when my pride was soaring 

 at its highest, a younger daughter cried, " Why, 

 papa, it's the back of a hair-brush !" And it was. 



