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216 chance? Let us be taken now all of us, and leave our likenesses with Jessie; she will be so pleased to get them."

"That is to say if they are ﬁnished in time," said Allan; "but I think it a very good opportunity."

"It must be done," said Mr. Lufton, "'and done at once." So the apparatus was adjusted, and the likeness of Amy taken on the spot.

"It should have been taken at Branxholm, though," said Allan, a little disappointed, "just by the willow-tree, instead of here on this bare plain, with only two scraggy gum-trees in the distance; but oh! it is very like you, Amy. We must have more than one for Jessie now that it is so successful I must have one for myself."

"And of course I must have one," said Mr. Lufton, "as it is on my premises that it is taken, and those two scraggy gum-trees, as you irreverently call them, are my especial landmarks."

"I wonder you don't plant," said Allan, while Isabel was settling herself for the important operation. "I'm sure you could have as fine a garden as we have, and as handsome willows too if you made use of your water privileges."

"Then you know you could always have a