: West African Folk-Tales by Barker W H William Henry Compiler Sinclair Cecilia Compiler - Folklore Africa West; Tales Africa West

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He took his young niece's arm and followed his sister-in-law into the drawing-room 21

'I'm so glad you've called me "lass"! I was so hoping some one would' 69

'Ask the band to play "La Rinka," Sarah,' cried Horatia 105

'We've come to say there's two men been turned off because they've been ill, and boys put on in their place' 132

As the two stood and watched the air-ship something dropped from it 220

Sarah's School Friend.

A MILL-HAND'S MANSION.

'It's a dreadful thing to have a father you don't respect,' said Sarah Clay, as she walked into the gilded and beautifully painted drawing-room of the aforesaid father's mansion in Yorkshire.

Her mother gave a little, sharp scream, and let fall the book she was holding in her hand.

Sarah came forward swiftly, picked it up, and turned it over to look at the title, at sight of which she said, with a little laugh, 'What a humbug you are, mother! You know you've never read a single word of this book.'

'Then don't say it,' observed Sarah lightly, as she threw herself lazily into one of the luxurious armchairs opposite her mother, and only then became aware that buried in the depths of another easy-chair was another figure--that of a man. For a moment she was taken aback, and started in fright, thinking that it was her father, of whom she might speak disrespectfully behind his back, but whom she did not dare to abuse to his face, fearless though she was by nature. However, to her relief, she saw it was not her father's big, burly form that filled the gold-brocaded chair, but her brother's tall, slight figure.

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