WITH CARL OF THE HILL 35 



mornings, and on others not; the meaning of 

 the rainbow he showed her and why the west 

 grows red. He gave her reasons for all these 

 things ; the deep yet simple reasons that there 

 are, though people commonly never trouble 

 their heads about them because they are happen- 

 ing every day. He showed her the best places 

 in which to find Linnsea — where it grew thickest v 

 and flowered finest when the spruces were first cut, / 

 and he told her why that was. They went to see 

 the stone deep under which the foxes had their 

 litter, and then lay down in the fern with the wind 

 in their faces and watched the little cubs tumbling 

 and rolling one over the other like kittens at 

 their play. They came upon an old fir-tree one 

 day with a big hollow at its roots, and Carl told 

 Sunlight how an old bear had slept there all last 

 winter and that his skin would be ready next 

 winter for the sleigh. 



Those were days indeed. And Sunlight, with her 

 cheek against her father's as he .strided on, would 

 think that no little girl had ever had such a wonder- 

 ful father before. And Carl would answer he was 

 quite sure that they all had a wonderful Father 

 who was Carl's Father too. That He had made the 



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