"Look! look!" cried another.

"I won't play with her," said one little girl.
"Nor I neither," replied another.
Mary evidently relished these sharp attacks, and saw a fair prospect of lowering Nig where, according to her views, she belonged.

Poor Frado, chagrined and grieved, felt that her anticipations of pleasure at such a place were far from being realized.

She was just deciding to return home, and never come there again, when the teacher appeared, and observing the downcast looks of the child, took her by the hand, and led her into the school-room.

All followed, and, after the bustle of securing seats was over, Miss Marsh inquired if the children knew "any cause for the sorrow of that little girl ?" pointing to Frado.