That wasn’t all the disagreeables either. The next day a letter came from Cousin Sophy in London, asking me and the little ones to stay with her. She’d been abroad before, and so had only just heard of Humph’s having measles. Well, Mother wrote to Jane, who was away in lodgings with the little ones, to tell her to take them to Cousin Sophy’s at the end of the week, because Mother knew that they’d like it better. But with regard to me, Mother said she hardly liked to trust me away from home again. I minded the not being trusted part, but I didn’t mind the not going so much when Mother told me, because it seemed so nice to stop at home with her. But it wasn’t really; it was a great deal horrider than I could have ’magined. I hardly saw Mother at all because she was looking after Humphrey all the time, and I wasn’t allowed to go in to him. As for Fräulein, she was most strict and disagreeable. And then when Violet wrote she said that Cousin Sophy had taken them to the Zoo and the Chamber of Horrors, and lots of other lovely places. I did feel cross. They are back now, though, and Humph is well, and everything is nice. I’ve quite settled not to go visiting strangers alone again--no, not as long as I live. The others are so interested in my adventures, though, that it almost makes one forget how horrid they really were. Perhaps the lovely things you read in books are really like that, and even being a cowboy mayn’t be always nice. And I do think a journey like mine would be too dreadful for any one if Mother weren’t waiting for them at the end of it. UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED, PRINTERS, WOKING AND LONDON. SOME DAINTY GIFT BOOKS. TUFFY AND THE MERBOO BY PHYLLIS M. GOTCH, Author of “The Romance of a Boo-Bird Chic.” Seventeen Full-page Coloured Pictures. _Large 4to_, =6s.= THE CINEMATOGRAPH TRAIN BY G. E. FARROW, Author of the “Wallypug of Why.” Thirty Drawings by ALAN WRIGHT. _Large Crown 8vo_, =5s.= THE GIANT CRAB BY W. H. D. ROUSE. Profusely Illustrated by CHARLES ROBINSON. _Square Crown 8vo_, =3s. 6d.= R. BRIMLEY JOHNSON, 4, ADAM STREET, STRAND, LONDON; and 3, FREDERICK STREET, EDINBURGH. FROM THE AUTUMN LIST. LESSONS BY EVELYN SHARP, Author of “Wynips,” etc., etc. Sketches of Child Life and Character. _Crown 8vo_, =2s. 6d.= _net_. ENGLAND: A NATION BEING The Papers of the Patriots’ Club EDITED BY LUCIAN OLDERSHAW. _Crown 8vo_, =3s. 6d.= _net_. Contributors: G. K. CHESTERTON, Rev. CONRAD NOEL, H. W. NEVINSON, REGINALD BRAY, J. L. HAMMOND, C. F. G. MASTERMAN, and R. C. K. ENSOR. YOUNG ENGLAND BEING Vivian Grey, Coningsby, Sybil, Tancred BY BENJAMIN DISRAELI. 4 Vols. _Large Crown 8vo, each_ =5s.= _net_. Edited by B. LANGDON DAVIES. Illustrated by BYAM SHAW. J. T. NETTLESHIP In Memoriam EDITED BY W. ROTHENSTEIN.