mediately came to her Mamma, who drew her into her bosom. "Will you go with me, Anna, and assist me to nurse your Papa ?”

"Oh yes, dear Mamma, do let us go."

"But, my love, you do not know what you may have to suffer. We must go by sea, probably with very bad accommodation-no good bed to sleep on-no good food to eat-no maid to attend you."

"Will Mary not go, Mamma?" interrupted Anna.

"No, my love, I must have no expense I can avoid."

“Well, Mamma, I can do quite well without Mary, if you will tie my things that fasten be

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"Yes, my love, but what I mean to prepare for is this, you must try to enable me to trust that you will do every thing for yourself that you can, and neither be a trouble to any one, nor give me cause to be anxious about you, for when I get to where your Papa is, I must devote my whole cares to him; and, if I did not think I might trust to your being rather a comfort than a cause of anxiety to your Papa and me, it would be wrong to take you; yet I know no one here with whom I should wish to leave you."

“Oh Mamma, do not, do not think of leaving me! Indeed, indeed, Mamma, you may trust I shall not be a trouble to you."

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"Well, my dear Anna, I hope I may. But remember, my love, I warn you before we go, that you will have many, many inconveniences and hardships to meet with; you will be sick at sea; you will be crowded into the same cabin with a number of people; and no quiet or comfort, night or day; and I may be sick at the same time, and no one to be sorry for, or take care of you."

"Or of you, Mamma?" asked Anna anxiously.

"I trust God will support me, my love.” "And God will take care of me also, Mamma."

"Oh my dear Anna," said her Mamma, pressing her closely to her heart. “If I thought you really loved God, and really trusted yourself to his love and care, I should have no anxieties about you; but Anna, there is a great, great difference between reading and learning about God, to please me, and because I wish you to do so, and loving Him really, and really trusting Him ; and I fear, as yet, my Anna only reads and learns the character and will of God, because I wish her to do so."

Anna hung down her head and made no answer, because she knew that what her Mamma said was true; and while she stood thus, for an instant, she said in her heart, "O Lord, teach me to love, and to trust in Thee." And though

Anna, ever since she could speak, had knelt morning and evening at her Mamma's lap, and repeated her prayers; yet, perhaps, in the sight of that God who looks on the heart, Anna had never before really prayed. Mrs. Ross kissed Anna, and then rung for Mary, and desired her to pack up some things, while she also occupied herself in the same way. Anna immediately thought with herself, " now, how can I be useful to Mamma?" and then very soon found out many ways that she could be so, and anxiously avoided asking a question, or doing a thing that could be the least troublesome.

Before Mrs. Ross had finished her necessary arrangements, Mr. Grey returned to say that a vessel was to sail that evening for Rotterdam; that it would be crowded with passengers; but that another vessel would sail in a few days, for which he urged Mrs. Ross to wait; but she determined to go that evening.

Every preparation was soon made, and about six in the evening, good Mr. Grey saw Mrs. Ross and Anna safe on board, and soon after the vessel moved out of the harbour, the sails were spread, and when Anna looked back to the shore and the pier, where the numbers of people, and noise, and bustle, and voices had so confused her, that she scarcely knew where she was, nor what she did, it seemed as if they were receding from the ship, and she no longer heard their

noise. It was a beautiful evening in June, and most of the passengers remained on deck. Mrs. Ross and Anna did so also, and all around her was so new to Anna, and occupied and amused her so much, that she could scarcely believe it possible, when her Mamma told her it was her usual time of going to bed. Mrs. Ross, too, began to feel the air chill, and she and Anna went below. It was as Mrs. Ross had said; the cabin was crowded to excess, and the beds as small and close as possible. Anna for a time shrunk from creeping into the one destined for her Mamma; but recollecting her promise, not to give any trouble, she begged her Mamma to allow her to undress herself; and while she tried to do so, and laughed at her own awkwardness in undoing those fastenings she could not see, she also occasionally stole a look at her bed, which seemed to her no larger than a shelf in her Mamma's wardrobe at home. She, however, with her Mamma's assistance, crept into it, and getting as far back as she could, to leave room for her Mamma, was soon fast sleep.

Next morning poor Anna waked more sick than she had ever been in her life; so were most of the other passengers, and for that day, and the following day and night, there was nothing but complaints, and sickness, and crying children, and running to and fro of the two old sailors who attended on the passengers. Mrs. Ross suffered

less from sickness than the others, but the closeness of the cabin made her cough incessantly, and at the close of the third day, when the other passengers were beginning to feel well, she seemed worn out and ill. When Anna was able to go on deck, however, her Mamma went also, and the air revived her strength. Among the passengers was another officer's lady. Her husband had not been wounded, but she was going to join him. This lady's name was Mrs. Mason. When she was sick Mrs. Ross nursed her as well as Anna; and when she was again well, she was anxious to prove to prove her gratitude to Anna's Mamma, by showing her every attention in her

power.

When the vessel arrived at Rotterdam, Colonel Mason, Mrs. Mason's husband, was waiting there to receive her. Colonel Mason knew that Major Ross, Anna's Papa, was among the wounded, but had not heard of him since the day after the battle. He could, however, direct Mrs. Ross to the place where he, and other wounded officers of the same regiment, had been carried. It was a village a few miles from the field of Waterloo.

Mrs. Ross immediately left the vessel, and travelled the same day till within a few miles of this village. Mrs. Ross then became so very much fatigued, that she could travel no farther, and had to stop and rest till the following day,