IT is not a grand house nor well furnished; but there are loving hearts in it, which is much better; and so thinks Peter, when he finds his wife's arms round his neck, welcoming him home after a long absence. He has come back as poor as he went, for robbers overtook the travellers on the road and took away their goods and money, but his wife says as he is safe never mind the rest, and now he must come in ; and there is little Milly to kiss and hug, and she is sure he must be hungry and tired after his long journey. And talking thus they go in to the farm kitchen and sit down to look at each other and hear all that has happened at home and abroad ; and he has adventures to tell of the foreign lands he has seen and the perils of the sea, and so here we will leave them happily together.
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