All in a garden fair; the simple story of three boys ... - University Library

8 ALL LN A GARDEN FAIR.
nowadays hardly anywhere except in Tasmania,
where it has been accounted for on various
scientific grounds, such as, that the soil is
strongly impregnated Avith phosphate—a thing
in itself quite sufficient to account for anything
and that the air is remarkably charged with
ozDne—what cannot ozone effect?—and that
the proximity of the South Pole w411 account
for everything not previously explained. All
these reasons are excellent, and enable us to
see quite satisfactorily why Tasmanian ladies
get black hair and blue eyes. Br,t they do not
apply to Mademoiselle Claire, because she never
was in Tasmania, and, I believe, is not likely to
go there. The question wliy she got blue eyes
and black hair may therefore be referred to
the Eoyal Society.
She looked at them WTCstling and running,
just as happily without her as with her, regret-
fully. She had thought, i)erhaps, tliiit they
would follow her and sit down on the trunk
beside her, and refuse to play any longer
because she would i)lay no longer. At least,