Little Fairy will enjoy it so after being shut 

 in all winter," and so we started out. 



My little heart fairly bounded for joy. 

 I raced hither and thither across the road- 

 way, before the swift barn-swallows that 

 skimmed so near my head. I could feel the 

 fanning of their blue-black wings in their 

 saucy flight around and around me; and the 

 little bluebirds swung on the tip-top of the 

 graceful cedars, singing their sweetest, glad- 

 dest songs. 



Soon a turn in the road, as we emerged 

 from the woods, brought us in full sight of 

 our dear Island Haven, with its stone towers 

 and chimneys rising above the trees on the 

 high western point of the island, and below 

 it, against the green wooded bluff, the pretty 

 Oriental pavilion, on the water's edge, with 

 its fleet of boats at anchor. 



I dashed across the bridge, under which 

 the rising tide was flowing fast, and up the 

 high hill ahead of them. Then I waited, for 

 papa and mamma always stopped a mo- 

 ment, in the spring coming, to look over the 

 broad, blue bay, with its green islands, and 

 before us, near at hand, at the home we 

 loved so well. Mamma said, "How sweet 

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