PERCIVAL.


"Patience and hope, that keep the soul,
Unruffled and serene,
Though floods of grief beneath it roll,
I learn, when calm and pure,
I see the floating water-lily,
Gleam amid shadows dark and chilly."

CAROLINE MAY.


The Sea-flower arrived at her new home in safety,--the home of our
western friends, the Santons. The continued ill-health of Mrs. Santon
had been the chief cause of the return of the family to the east. By a
favorable turn of fortune, Mr. Santon had come into possession of nearly
double the amount of his former wealth, and he was now looked upon as
one of Boston's most prominent citizens. The selling of western lands,
which he had obtained for a mere trifle, had been the chief source of
revenue in building up his fortune. The little Winifred, whom we left
making merry over the Erin simplicity of Biddy and Patrick, had grown to
be a young miss of seventeen. Those black eyes of hers, which had
attracted the gaze of the tall western youths for the last time, had in
no way lost their brilliancy. Mischief still sat triumphant therein, and
not a day passed but some poor uninitiated was brought to test the
merits of that gift. Miss Winnie looked upon this removal to more
enlightened regions, as a change altogether for the best; for how could
such as she, at that age which never comes but once in a lifetime, be
content to feed on air, _a la prairie_. She had tired of looking at the