14 THE SWAN AND HER CREW. 



rowing matches on the river, but if this new arrangement were 

 carried out there would be far better opportunities of building 

 and sailing the projected yacht, and of sporting and naturalizing 

 on the broads and rivers, so he at once answered 



" I shall be very willing to try it, sir ; but Jimmy Brett 

 must be included in the arrangement. I could not desert 

 him, and he would be miserable without me at school. It 

 would never do to separate us now, father." 



" Well, but do you think his grandmother can afford it ? 

 It will be more expensive than being at the Grammar 

 School." 



" Then I tell you what, father and mo' her : the Rector must 

 only charge Jimmy the same as the Grammar School, and you 

 must make up the difference to him, and I will do with less 

 pocket-money." 



" You shall not make that sacrifice, darling," said Mrs. 

 Merivale ; " we will put that all right, and I will go and see 

 Mrs. Brett in the morning." 



And so the matter was finally arranged, and that the boys 

 might become well acquainted with each other, Dick Carleton 

 was invited to stay at Mr. Merivale's. But before he comes 

 we will just go back a few hours and follow merry Mary 

 Merivale, as her brother called her, and her younger sister 

 Florrie, on their search for pupae. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Digging for Pupae. Dick Carleton. Metamorphoses of Butterfly. 



ABOUT two miles further inland from Mr. Merivale's and in 

 the midst of a fine and well-wooded country, was Sir Richard 

 Carleton' s house. Around it was a park with larger timber 

 trees than were to be found in the rest of the countryside. 

 Mary and Florence Merivale had fixed on this spot as the 

 scene of their labours in the cause of science, as represented 

 by the collections of their brother and Jimmy Brett. Leaving 



