Alisa's Chum [antikvár]

AUBERT; or, ONE TINY LINK. CHAPTEE I. WHY THE BOYS WERE LATE FROM SCHOOL. loODLAND COTTAGE, Eosedale Eoad, has, most people will agree, a delightfully countrified and picturesque sound ; suggestive of cool glades and mossj? paths, of singing birds and flower - wreathed hedges ; and so thought Captain Brereton, when, some seven or eight years before the time of which I am about to write, he had been seeking a small and healthily-situated house a little way out of London, ' Just the thing ! ' said he, when he saw it ; ' high and open locality ; detached—no next-door neighbours to bother one ; breeze off the meadows ; large gardée «