Ellen Ellis

Everything Is Possible To Will illustrated Ellen Ellis

ON a grassy knoll, beneath wide-spreading elms, sits Zella-or Zee, as she is commonly called-a girl of some nine or ten summers. She is in a brown study of no pleasing character, judging by the rueful expression of her countenance, as, gazing on vacancy with a rapt, see-nothing look, thoughts well up in her active, chaotic brain, so nimbly as to tread on each other's heels. A pile of books lies in her lap, and on them she muses, fitfully, in a truant hope of learning her lessons.