Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful

and coherent paragraph.

A. It was in this spirit that my little ones crept about me the other evening to hear about their great-grandmother Field, who

lived in a great house in Norfolk (a hundred times bigger than that in which they and papa lived), which had been the scene—so

at least it was generally believed in that part of the country—of the tragic incidents which they had lately become familiar with

from the ballad of the Children in the Wood.

B. Here, Alice put out one of her dear mother’s looks, too tender to be called upbraiding.

C. Children love to listen to stories about their elders when they were children ; to stretch their imagination to the conception of

a traditionary great-uncle, or grandame, whom they never saw.

D. Certain it is, that the whole story of the children and their cruel uncle was to be seen fairly carved out in the wood upon the

chimney-piece of the great hall— the whole story down to the Robin Redbreasts—till a foolish rich person pulled it down to set

up a marble one of modern invention in its stead, with no story upon it.