If Arabella could have let the matter rest here, all might have been well.

'I

do not at all believe Mr Fyley will let cousin Elizabeth hear you tomorrow,' said she, 'or the next day either.' 'Why not?'

'Because it is not at all likely.'

'O! because it is not at all likely,' said Arthur, mimicing her, and he and Rose laughed very provokingly. ‘Ido not at all believe Mr Fyley will let her hear you, because it is not likely.'

'Because it is not at all likely,' said Rose, shaking her head.

Arthur was troubled with another prick of conscience, when he saw that he had made Rose as bad as himself; so he sat himself down and opened his book.

You may say what you like, and mimic as much as you like,' said Arabella, but I shall tell mamma when I write.'

your fault now.'

together You have been troublesome can since you got up.'

It

'I am going to begin, if you will leave

off talking.'

'And it is a great shame, when cousin Elizabeth is so poorly.'

'If you do not choose to hear me, I may as well go away.'

'I am quite ready to hear you. I am sure you have kept me waiting a long time. I do not think it is at all likely that Mr Fyley will let cousin Elizabeth hear you for a week.' Arthur had not thought it necessary to wait for the end of her sentence, and this occasioned another discussion, lasting about as long as the lesson itself would have done; and at last, Arthur began again, reading at a tremendous rate, and muttering so that no mortal could hear what he said.

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that I do not understand; I shall go and ask cousin Elizabeth.'

He looked very conscious when he presented himself before his cousin, and she saw that he had been troublesome. 'Do you want to ask me a question?' He nodded his head. Is it something that Arabella could not tell you?'

'I shall find the word in a minutehere it is" monsoon;" there was a monsoon or trade-wind, that blew always the same way, (I think it was from East to West,) is it true?'

'O yes.'

'That is very odd! The wind never blows the same way for long together with us; and I am sure we never can tell which way it will blow next. It would be very convenient for men, who go up in balloons, if they could tell,would not it? What do you think makes the wind blow always the same way inin the place this book tells about?' What place is it?'

'I do not know exactly.'

'I am afraid you have not been reading very carefully; let me see,' said she, taking the book. You are reading about the Atlantic Ocean, are not you

'Never mind where-suppose it is anywhere, and tell me what makes the wind blow the same way.'

'What makes the wind blow at all?

What is the wind?'

'I do not know; is not it air?'
เ Yes, air in motion.'

'I thought so because I can make a wind with the bellows; sometimes I

blow in Arabella's neck with the bellows.'

と You should not do so, dear! it makes her cross.'

'Well, but what makes the air blow about, why does not it stay where it is?' When it gets heated, it is lighter and thinner, and all the air round about rushes to fill up its place. I believe that is one reason. In very hot coun

tries where the sun is almost immediately over head, and where they have no rain for months together, the winds are more regular than they are here.'

'I should think they would be most regular over the sea, because men do not make fires there.'

. Our fires do but little towards warming the air,' said his cousin ; but there is another difference between the land