SATURDAY DECEMBER 18. 1920.
"THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH."
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of supernamral shell-fish, with human faces. In intensifying the portraiture of giants, he had sunk quite a litle capital; and, though no painter him- self, be could indicate, for the instruc tion of his artists, with a piece of chalk, a certain furtive leer for the "Dear. Caleb," said the carrier.
countenances of those monsters, that * Very dear at this season."
was safe to destroy the peace of mind "Never mind that. It would be of any young gentleman between the cheap to me, whatever it cost." re-ages of six and eleven, for the whole turned the little mac. **Anything Christmas or midsummer vacation, else. John? **
**A small fox,” replied the car- riët. Here you are?”
For Caleb Flummer. said the ligle man, spelling out the direction, ***With cash. With cash. John? I don't think it's for me."
care.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Heaven knows? But I think parcel of anything to be doted on, that has not been well; bat the attendant But what was that young figure grade in the social scale being made he substituted, that she don't be whom my infirmity," he touched his of a man, which the same hairy cricket be leather, and the next of coarse Caleb's vague bewilderment of mameg lieve it? 2.
ears; and shook his head, "renders set so near her stool, and which re-liph stult. As to the common may have hall briginated in his having "Ah. you dog! You'ro joking," abnost indispensable, not having mained there, singly and alone? Why people, they had just so many marches confused himself about himself, and said Tackleton.
arrived, I fear there must be some did it linger still, so near her, with out of tinder-boxes, for their arms everything around him, for the lore all But the carrier, though slow to mistake. The bad night which made its arm upon the chimney-piece, ever and legs, and there they were-estab his blind daughter. How could the understand the full drift of his mean the shelter of your comfortable cart repeating. Married and not solished in their sphere at once, beyond ing. eyed him in such a serious man-(may I never have worse?) so accept- Would ner, that he was obliged to be a little able, is still as bad as ever. more explanatory,
you in your kindness, suffer me to rent a bed here?"
"Yes, yes," cried Dot. "Yes? Certainly!
Oh!" said the carrier, surprised.}.
a
"I have the honour," said Tackle- tan, holding up the fingers of his eit hand, and tapping the forefinger. to imply "there I am, Tackleton to wit”
confounded.
me! "
Oh, Dột? Oh, Filing Dot? There is no place for it in all your husband's visions: why has its shadow fallen on his hearth!
CHIRP THE SECOND.
little man be otherwise than-bewilder ed, aher labouring for so many yeny to destroy his own identity, and that of all the objects that had any bearing
the possibility of getting out of it.
There were various other samples of his handicraft besides dolls in Caleb Plummer's room. There were on it?
"There we are,” said Caleb,- Faile Noah's arks in which binds and beasts) What he was in toys, he was las
were as commonly right St, I asing back pace or two to form the. most men are in other things. You
sure you; though they could be cram- better judgment of his work." may easily suppose, therefore, that I have the homoer, sir, to marry by the rapidity of this consent. Crab Plummer and his blind med in, anyhow, at the root, and near the real thing as sixpenn'orth e within the great green cape, which young wife, and a pretty wife Well: I don't object; but, still daughter lives all alone by them-rauled and shaken, into the smallest halfpence is to sixpence. reached down to the calves of his legs, here he rapped his little finger, to I'm no: quite sure that---** selves, as the story-books say—and compass. By a bold poetical licence, pity that the whole front of the house there was buttoned up to the chin express the bride; not sparingly, but "Hash she interrupted. "Dear my blessing. with yours to back it, most of these Noah's arks had knock-opens at once: If there was paly a and uncommonly pleasant fellow; and sharply; with a sense of power. "I'm John: **
I hope, on the story-books, for say- ers on the doors: inconsistent ap-staircase in it, now, and regular doors. With care." returned the carrier, that he was about as choice a spirit, able to gratify that humour, and I do. Why, he's stone dea!," ungeding anything in this workaday world: pendages perhaps, as suggestive off to the rooms to go in at: But that's looking over his shoulder. "Where and as agreeable a companion, as ever It's my whim. But now look John:
-Caleb Flammer and his blind morning callers and a postman, yet the worst of may calling. I'm always do you make out cash?”
stood in a pair of bull-headed-looking | there.
**I know he is, but Yes, sir, daughter lived all aloce by them a pleasant finish to the outside of the deluding myself, and swindling my Oh: To be sure:" said Caleb.boots with mahogany-coloured tops.
He pointed to where Dot was sit-certainly. Yes! Certainly-selves, in a little cracked nutshell of building. There were peaces of self." "It's all right With care, Yes,
"You are speaking quite sočily. Sall. Tackleton, the toy-merchant, ting, thoughtfully, before the fire, make him up a bed," directly," John "a wooden house, which was, in truth, melancholy little cars which, when' that's mine. It might have been with was going to be married. In spite of leaning her dimpled chin upon her As she hurried off to do it, the no better than a pimple on the pro- the wheels, went round. performed You are not tired, father?". cash, indeed, if my dear bor in the all this, he was going to be married, hand, and watching the bright blaze. Rutter of her spirits, and the agitation minent red-brick pose of Gruff and most doleful music. Many sinall Tired," echoed Calto. with. golden South Americas had lived. John. And to a young wite too: a beautiful The carrier looked at her, and then of her matter, were so strange, that Tackleton. The premises of Graff 553les, drums, and other instruments great burst of animation. “hat You loved him like a son: didn't you? young wile.
at him, and then her and then at him the carrier stood looking her, quite and Tackleton were the great feature of torture; no end of cannon, shields, should tire me. Bertha? I was never You needn't say you did. I know,
He didn't look much like a bride- | again.
of the street; but you might have swords, spears, and guns. There tired. What does it mean?" of course. *Caleb Plumbles. With groom, as he stood in the carrier's "She honours and obeys, no doubt.. "Did its mothers make it up a knocked down Caleb Plummer's were little numblers in red breeches. To give the greater force to h
Yes, yes, it's all right. It's kitchen, with a twist in his dry face. you know," said Tackleton, and beds then cried Miss Slowboy to dwelling with a hammer or ree, and incessantly swarming up high obshe wonts be checked himself in za in and a screw in his body, and his hat that, as I am not a man of senti- the baby: and did its hair grow carried off the pieces in a cart. les of red-tape, and coming down, voluntary imitation of two half-length jarked over the bridge of his nose, ment, is quite enough for me. But brown and curly, when its caps was
If any one had done the dwelling-head first. on the other side: and stretching and yawning figures on ther
bottoms of his pockets, and his whole ir?" and his handy stuck down into the do you think there's anything more in lifted off, and frighten it a precious house of Caleb Plummer the honour there were innomerable old gentlemantel shelf, who were represent
pets. a-sitting by the fires:
to miss it after such an inroad, it men of respectable, not to say vener as in one eteral sate of wearipes tarcastic ill-conditioned self peering j "I think." observed the carrier, With that unscconciable, armarion would have been, no doubt, to 'com-able, appearance, insanely,gying over from the waist upwards and huured out of one little corner of one little that I should chuck any man car of of the mind to trifles, which is often mend its demolition as a vas: improve-horizontal pegs, inserted. for the pur agrict of
I 505E- It was eye. Be the concentrated essence of window, who said there wasn't." any number of ravens.
incidental to a state of doubt and con-ment. I stuck to the premises of pose, in their own street doors. There Bacchanalian song, something about Ba: a bride!
Exactly so." returned the other, fusion. the carrier, as he walked Graff and Tackleton, like a barnacle were beasts of all sorts: horses, in sparkling best; and be sacz it with: groom he designed to be.
with an unusual abacity of assent. slowly to and fro, found himself men to a ship's keel, or a snail to a door, particular, of every breed, from the as assumpilan of devil-may-caus In three days" me Next To be swe? Doubtless you would. tally repeating even these absurd or a tile bunch of toadstools to the spotted barrel on four pegs, with a voice, that made his face a thousand Thursday. The last day of the firstOf course. I'm certain of it. Good-words, many times. So many times, stem of a tee. month in the year.
Bat it was the germ small tippet for a mane. to the times more meagre and more thought That's my wed-night. Pleasant dreams?"
that he, got them by heart, and was from which the full-grown trunk of thoroughbred rocker" on his highest ful than ever. fing-day," said Tackleton.
The ecod carrier was puzzled, and stiti conting them over and over, like Gruf and Tackleton had sprung: and mettle. As it would have been hard
You're singing. Did I mention that he had always made uncomfortable the uncertain, in a lesson. When Tilly, after administer under its crazy rool, the Gruft before count the dozens upon dozens you?" said Tackleton. prating the one eye wide open, and one eye spite of himself.
'were head in at the doon. Go in Las He couldn't helping as much friction to the little bald last. bad in a small way, made toys of
grotesque figures that early sher: and that the one eye showing it, in his manner..
head with her hand as she thought for a generation of old boys and girls. ever ready to commit all sorts of can't sing " near "shut was always the expressive Good night, my dear friend!" wholesome (according to the practice who had played with them and found absurdities of the arming of a handle. Nobody would have suspected hard - pink "said the canis. eye? I don't think I did.
•Try agai
That's my wedding-day
of. We're exactly alike. in reality.baby's cap on. said Tackleton compassionately. "I'm of nurses), had once more red the them out, and broken them, and gore so it would have been no easy task to of it. He hadn't, what is generaliy
mention, say human folly, vice, or termed a singing face, by any means a "Something for our governor. Tackleto. ranling his money.
I see. You won't give us to-mbTTON"
"I can't soft to sing," said ef said Caleb. after pondering a
weakness. that had not its type, im- Why, it's our wedding-day evening? Well! Next day you go
mediate or remote, in Caleb Plum Tackle:on.
"I'm glad you can, Irie while. To be sure. That's
out visiting. I know, I'll meer you
iner's room. And not in an exagge hope you can afford to work too. what I came for; but my head's so **Ha ha laughed Tackleton.there, and bring my wife that is to ronnington them arks and things? Hej "Os! You're just such another.
rated form, for very little handles Hardly fine III do her good. You're agret- hasn't been here, has het
will move men and women to as think?" couple. Just
able? Thank’ee. What's that?”
***If you could only see hiw strange performances, as any, toy was
Bertha, how he's winking at me ever made to undertake.
In the midst of all these objects. whispered Caleb. "Such a man tor)
Cavier,
a box of dolls eyes, for my daughter's work. wish it was her own sight in a box. John.”
wish B. on could be:"cried the
The ce." said the linle man You speak very hearty. To think thashe should never see the dolls and them a-string at her. so bold. at day long: That's where it cuts. What's the damage. John".
amage you." said John. " Yequire. Do:: Very rear.
- Well: As Be you to say so." ved the little man."It's your .kind ways Let me set. I think
thark a
**Norihe." returned the carrier. He's too busy courting."
and it was ten to one he'd take up. I had reze go. by the bye. You cozidn't have the goodness to let me pinch Boxer's tail, muin. for half a moment, could you?"
-Why Caleb, what a question : " "Oh, tever mind, mum.” ssid the file roan. He mightn't like it. partips. There's a small order just come in. log barking dogs; and 1 should wish to go as close to natur” as I could. Raza sixpence. That's all. "Never mind. mum."
Oh! You are here, are you: Wait a bit. I'll take you home. John Peerybingle, my service to you. More of my service to your pretty wife. Handsome every day! Better too. i: possible! And younger. mused the speaker, in a low voice; "that's the devil of it!"
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1 should be astonished at your paying compliments, Mr. Tackleton." said Dot, not with the best grace in the world, "but for your condition."
"You know all about it then?"
"I have got myself to believe it
exclaimed the carrier.
was mad.
"
said
to
"I say? A word with you," mur- mured Tackleton, medging the carrier with his elbow, and taking him a little apart. "You'll come to the wedding? We're in the same boat, you know.”
"How in the same bort? " inquired the carrier.
Tackleton, with another
said Tackleton. Why, then, the
surprise. The stranger had advanced
towards the fire to warm himself, and stood" within a short strike of her chat. But quite still.
darling: What's the matter?"
They were all about her in
moment. Caleb, who had been dozing
#
the hearth.
old man standing, as before, quite and, when she had done so, affect :0 think that there was really something
D' sleep.
I have said thar Caleb and his poor blind daughter lived here: but I should have said that Caleb lived here, and his poor blind daughter somewhere else in an enchanted home of Caleb's furnishing, where scarcity and shab- biness were not, and trouble never entered. Caleb was no sorcerer, but
were
And all was Caleb's doing; all the
mansion
posed John. • What are you talking I'm bener, John," she said. in the tube, and blow a dozen times, doing of her simple father! Bet be it's too good for me."
about?**
++ I'm quite well now--
other side of her.
and hold it to her eye like a telescope,
- What!
for boch, I should
carmesi--wouldn't
The blind girl smiled and rodded.
"And frighten it a precious pets: a-sitting by the fires. What tright ened Dot. I wonder? mused the carrier, pacing to and fro
He scouted, from his hear. the The indignation of Dot at this pre-
insinuations of the toy-merchant: and It was a loud cry from the carrier's yet they filled him with a vague surmpts assertion is not to be desile; a loud, sharp. sudden cry, that indefinite uneasiness. For Tackleion He's coming round though." said cribed. What text?. His imagination made the room ring. like a glass vED Calebet he told me to keep on would cempster the possibility of just sel. She had risen from her seat, and painful sense, himself, of being a mains to us, the magic of devoted. The blind gil busy as a doll's dress him, he 925 la
was quick and shy; and he had that in the only magic art that still re- Caleb and his daughter sat at work-joke you'd think, if you didn't know the rear side of the road going home. I such another baby, perhaps. The man stood like one transfixed by terror and man of slow perception, that a broker deathless love. Nature had been the maker: Caleb painting and glazing the you now?
it was always worrying to him. mistress of his study; and from her fear-pair front of a desirable family mind of linking anything that Tackle-
"The bird that can sing, and won't He certainly had no intention in his teaching, all the wonder came.
The blind girl never knew that The care imprinted in the lines of Sing, must be made so sing, they
garbied Tackleton. |ton had said with the unusual condus | ceilings,
discoloured. valks Caleb's face, and his absorbed and say. "Dot cried the carrier. "Mary of his wife; but the two subjects of blotched and bare of plaster here; dreamy manner, which would have sat about the owl that can't sing, and
and he could not keep them asunder. And widening every day. reflection came into his mind together, and there. high crevices unstopped well on some alchemist or abstruse ought to sing, and will sing: 3 beams student, were at first sight an odd there anything that he should be made? "A linle disparity, you know," said on the cake-box, in the first imperfect the visitor. declising all refreshment The blind girl never knew that ironialities about huma
The bed was soon made ready: and mouldering and tending downward, contrast to his occupation, and the to do?"
But trivial "The extent to which he's winking
Come and spend an evening with of mind, seized Miss Slowboy by the quite wellagan she said, "quite welling off; the size, and shape, and true bread, become very serious matters his daughter.
nudge. recovery of his suspended presence but a cup of jea, retired. Then Dot was rusting, wood rotring, paper peel. j things, invented and pursued forst this moment:" whispered Caith in Ot. v gracious 1" vs. beforehand.""
**Always marry and light-hearted "Why?" demanded John, astonish-apolonised.""
hair of her head. but immediately aztiarranged the great chair in the proportion of the dwelling withering of lact; and, apart from this conside- It happened opportunely, that Boxered at this pressing hospitality.
"Mary exclaimed the carrier, chimney-corner for her husband: fill- away. The blind girl never knew ration. I am not at all prepared to say. with us!" cried the smiling Berthe
"Oh you're there. #re you?" without receiving the proposed stimu-
returned the other supporting her in his arms. "Areed his pipe and gave if him: and took that ugly shapes of delf and earthen-yself, that if Caleb had been a lord
Por idice!” lus, began to bark with great zeal. That's a new way of receiving an voc i What is all? Tell me.
her usual little stool beside him on ware were on the board; that sorrow Chamberlain, or member of parlia- answered Teckleton."
He really did believe she was mi But as this implied the approach of invitation. Why, for pleasure-soci- dear :"
and faint-heartedness were in the mer, or a lawyer, or even a great some new visitor, Caleb, postponing | ability, you know, and all that! ** She only answered by beating her
She always would sit on that little House: that Caleb's scanty hairs were speculator. he would have deals in idios; and he founded the belief. F his study from the lile to a more con-j "I thought you were ever soci-hands together. and falling into a wild i stool. "I think she must have had a turning grayer and more.gray: belone toys one whit less whimsical, while can't say whether consciously or not, venient season, shouldered the roundable." said John, in his pain way.
I have a very great doubt whether upon her being fond of him. The blind girl f of laughter. Then, sinking from kind of notion that it was a coaxing, her sightless face.
**Well; and being there-bow gre box, and took a horried leave. He ** Tchsh! It's of to use to be his Krisp
never knew they had a master, cold, they would have been as harmless. upon the ground. she wheeding little stood. might have spared himself the trouble, anything but free with you, I see.”
and exactidz
uninterested-never So you were put in the rain last you?" said Tackleton, in his grundg. covered her face with her apron, and She was, out and out, the very best for he met the visitor upop the thres-
wept bitterly. And then she laughed Biller of pipe I sitould say the knew that Tackleton was Tackletonight father, in your beautiful new ing way
"Oh well; quite well. And hold."
the truth is you have a-what tea again; and then she cried again; and four quarters of the quarters of the
in short but lived in the belief of an greatcoat." said Caleb's daughter.
In my beautiful new greatcost," happy as even von can wish myös drinking people call a sort of a com- then she said how cold it was, and globe. To see her put that chubby eccentric humorist who loved to have answered Caleb, glancing towards a be. As happy as you would maŝaj fortable appearance together, you and suffered him to lead her to the fire. little finger in the bowl, and then his jest with them, and who, while clothes-line in the room, on which the the whole world, if you could your wife. We know better. you where she sat down as before. The blow down the pipe to clear the robe, lives, disdained to hear one word of sackcloth gament previously describ-|
he was the guardian angel of their
"Poor idiot muttered Tackleton know, bus-
ed, was carefully hang up to dryi No gleam of reason. Not a glean 1 No, we don't know better." inter-still.
thankfulness.
"And of such a railor too," said The blind girl took his hand: sede Caleb. "Quite a fashionable tailor. kissed. it; held it for a moment
her own two hands; and laid her Well: We don't know bener ** John! ** But John was on the with a most provoking twist in her 100 had a cricket on his hearth; and
The blind girl rested, from her cheek against it tenderly, before res then," said Tackleton. "We'll agree
Why turn her face capital little face, as she looked down listening sedly to its music when the work, and laughed with delight leasing it. There was such unspeak does it matter? that we don't. As you like: what towards the strange cld gentleman, as it was quite a brilliant thing. Als motherless blind child was very young "Too good, father! What can be too able affection and such fervent grati
I was going to say, if addressing him: Was her brain to the tobacco, she was a perfect mis, that spirit had inspired him with the
tude in the act, that Tackleton him as you have that" sort of appearance, wandering.
I'm half ashamed to tress of the subject; and her lighting thought that, even her great depri- good for you?"
wear itself was moved to say, in a milders **Only's fancy. John dear-a kind of the pipe, with a wisp of paper, sation might be almost changed into a though," said Caleb, watching the growl than usual your company will produce a favour. able effect on Mrs. Taileron that will of shock-a something coming sud-when the carrier had it in his math blessing, and the girl made happy effect of what he said, upon her What's the matter now?” be. And, though I don't think your denly before my eyes-I don't know going so very near his nose, and cricket tribe are potent spirits, even in hear the boys and people say when I went to sleep last night, and by these little means. For all the brightening face; upon my word? "I stood it close beside ray pillon good lady's very friendly to me, in what it was. It's quite gone; quite yer not scorching it was art, high though the people who hold converse this matter, still she can't help herself gone."
art, sir.
'Hol-lo! behind me.
Here's a remembered it in my dreams. And with then do pot know it (which is
to look. And when I said I was a ous red sun-the red sun, lather a compactness and cosiness of appear-Tackleton, turning the expressive eye tuning up, again, acknowledged .it frequently the case); and there are swell!" I don't know which way when the day, broke, and the glor
not in the unseen world, voices more
"Red in the mornings and the tor for that was the firm, though ance about her that always tells, even all round the room. I wonder where The bright fire. blazing up again, gemie and more true; that may be very common man, said. 'No, your
in an indifferent case. Gruff had been bought out long ago: you'll come?"
You'll say it's gone, and what it was. Humph! acknowledged it? The little mower so implicitly relied on, or that are
honour Bless your honour, don't evenings. Bertha," said poor Caleb2 only leaving his name, and as some
Caleb, come here! Who's that with on the clock, in his unheeded work, so certain to give nose but tenderest say that! I was quite ashamed. I with a woeful glance at his employer suit his nature, according to its die- "We have arranged to keep our the gray hair?" _
"When it Tose, and the bright acknowledged it, the readiest of all counsel; as the voices in which the really felt as if I hadn't a right to
light I almost lear to strike myself tionary meaning in the business-wedding-day (as far as that goes) at "I don't know, sir, returned
home," said John. We have made Caleb in a whisper. Never seen him puffed at his old pipe, and as the address themselves to human kind. Tackle the toy-merchant was a man
And as he soberly and thoughtfully spirits of the fireside and the hearth wear it."
Happy blind girl: How merry, she against in walking, came in thể room, I turned the little tree towards whose vocation had been quite mis- the promise to ourselves these six before, in all my life. A beautiful red fire gleamed, and as the cricket understood by his parents and guard- months,
Caleb and his daughter were at was, in her, exultation! We think, you see, that figure for a mut-cracker; quite a new chirped; that genins of his hearth and work together in their usual working-
1-see. you, father," she said, it, and blessed Heaven for ma jars.. If they had made him a money- home-
model. With a screw-jaw opening home (for such the cricket was) came room, which served them for their clasping her hands. as plainly, as if things so precious, and blessed you lender, or a sharp attorney, or #
"Bah! what's home?"
cried down into his waistcoat, he'd be out, in fairy shape; into the room, ordinary Eving-room as well; and a had the eyes I neyer want when for sending them to cheer me tient
"Bedlam" broke losse Ta sheriff's officer, or a broker, he might Tackleton. Four walls and a ceil-lovely.”
and summoned many forms of bome strange place it was. There were you are with me.
Tackleton, under his breath, * have sown his discontented oars in his ing! Why don't you kill that "Not ugly enough," said Tackle- about him, Dog of all ages, and,ali houses in it, finished and unfinished, youth, and, after having had the full cricket: I would: I always do. Iton.
sizes, filled the chamber. Doss who for dolls of all stations in life. Subar- "Yes, yes! Brigts blso ex- shall arrive at the strait-waistcoat, dine fun of himself in ill-natured transac-| hate their noise. There are four Or for a firebox, either" observere merry children, running on beban tenements for dolls of moderate claimed the gist, turning up her muffers soon. We're getting on 15
Caleb, with his hands hooked food tions, might have turned aniable, at walls and a ceiling at my house. ved Caleb, in deep contemplation, fore him gathering Bowers, in the mears, kitchens and single apart radiant face: the colour I can just last for the sake of a little freshness Come to me!"
"what a model! Unscrew bis head fields; coy Dots, half shrinking from, meals for dolls of the lower classes; remember in the blessed sky! You ly in each other, stared vacantly and novelry. But, cramped and chaf- You kill your crickets, eh?" said to put the matches in; turn him heels hall yielding to, the pleading of his capital town residences for dolls of told me it was bike before. A bright fore him while his daughter spat as if he really were uncertain (1 fing in "the peaceable pursuit of toy-John.
opards for the light; and what a fire- own rough image; newly-married high estate. Some of these establish- bite, cost- making, he was a fomestic ogre, who Scrunch 'em, sir," returned the box for a gentleman's mantelsbelf, Dots, alighting at the door, and taking ments were already finished according
"Made loose to the Sgure," sugeve he was) whether Tackleros had been taing on children all his life other. setting his beel heavily on the just as he starde!"
done anything to deserve her thank wondering possession of the household to estimate, with a view to the congested Caleb... and was their implacable enemy. He floor. You'll say you'll' come? It's "Not half ugly enough," said Eeys; motherly little Dots, attended venience of dolls of limited incotre; "Yes! loose to the Bgure" cried or not. If he could have been a pe despised all Lys: wouldn't bave as much your interest as mine, you Tackleton.
"Nothing in him at all. by fictitious Slowboys, bearing babies others could be fitted on the most ex-the blind girl, laughing heartily, "and fectly free agent, at that mome bought one for the world; delighted, know, that the women should per- Comel Bring that box: "All "right to be christened;.matronly Dots, stlpensive scale, at a moment's notice, in it,-you, dear father, with your required, on pain of death; to-k in his malice, to insindate grim ex- suade each other that they're quiet pressions into the faces of brown and contented, and couldn't be better now. I hope?"
young and blooming, watching Dots from whole shelves of chairs and merry eye, your smiling face, your the toy-merchant, or fall at his paper farmers who drove pigs to off. I know their way,
"Oh, quite gone! Quile gone!" of daughters, as they danced at rustic tables, sofas, "bedsteads, and uphol-free step, and your dark hair-look- according to his merits. I belie
would have been – uneven, market, bell-men who advertised lost one woman says, another woman is said the little woman, waving him balls; fat Dots, encircled and beset stery. The nobility and gentry and ing so young and handsome which couse be would
**Hollo 1 Hollo !" said Caleb. -“I lawyers' consciences, movable old determined to clinch, always. There's hurriedly away. Good-night by troops of rosy grandchildren, public in general, for whose accom
Yer Caleb knew that ladies who darned stockings or carved that spirit of emulation among em, So, with another sharp book round withered Dots, who leaned on sticks modation these; tenements were deshall be vain, presently." pies and other like samples of his sir, that if your wife says to my wife the room; he went out at the door; and toptered as they crept along. Old signed, lay, here and there, in think you are, already cried hands he had broug stock-in-trade. In appalling masks, I'm the happiest woman in the followed by Caleb with the wedding carriers, too, appeared, with blind baskets, staring straight up at the the blind girl, pointing at him, in tree home for hideous, hairy, red-eyed jacks in world, and I dote on him,' my wife cake on his head.
old Boxers lying at their feet; and ceiling: but, in denoting their degrees her glee know you, father Ha, hat bis
I've found you out, you help boxes, vampire kites, desponiscat will say the same to yours,-or-more, The carrier had been so much as newer carts with younger drivers in society, and confining them to their sha, bai
tounded by his fitte wife, and so Pocrybingle Brothers" on the tilt respective stations (which experience seem
How different, the picture in ber denied blusel, were perpetually flying forward, to "Do you mean to say she don't, busily engaged in scothing and tend-and-sick old carriers, tended by the shows to be lamentably difficult in
hands; and graves of real life), the makers of these dolls mind, from Caleb, es be sat observ. ing ber, that he had scarcely 'been gentlest soul perfectly revelled. They were his Don't cried Tackleton, with a conscious of the stranger's presence, dead and gone old carriers, green had far improved on Nature, who is fing her! She had spoken of his free only relief and safety-valve. He was shot, sharp laugh. Don't what?" until now, when he again stood there, the churchyard And as the often, forward and "preverse; for they, step. She was right in that, For great in such intentions. Anything The carrier had had some faint idea❘ their enly guest.
cricket showed him all these things not resting on such arbitrary marks years, he had never once crossed that suggestive of a pony-nightmare was of adding, “dote upon you." But "He don't belong to them, you he saw them plainly, though his eyes as satin, coton-print, and bits of rag, threshold at his own slow pace, but delicione to him. He had even lost happening to meet the half-closed sec" said Joho. "I must give him were fixed upon the Bre-the car had superadded striking personal dil-with a footfall counterfeited for her money (and he took to that soy very eye, as it twinkled upon him over the | a hint to go.”
Tier's heart grew light and happy, and ferences which allowed of no mistake. Pear; and never had he, when his
somehow." said Dot.
After a hard struggle. I sup: "pose?
-Very. Tackleton the toy-merchant, pretty generally known as Gruff and Tackle-
from falling into my views, for there's "I'm glad it's gone."" muttered
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tumblers who wouldn't lie down, and and half believe it,”
stare infants out of countenance: his then?" asked the carrier.
Whatever
प्र
And the cricket and the kettle
I blue cost-
"Bright blue," said Caleb.
kindly) by getting up goblin slides for turned-up collar of the cape, which "I beg your pardon, friend," said teh nked his household gods with Thus, the doll-lady of distinction had heart was heaviest, forgotten the light magic lanterns, whereon the powers was within an ace of poking it out, the old gentleman, advancing to him; all his night, and cared no more for war limbs of perfect symmetry; but tread that was to render her so cheer- of darknces were depicted as a port he felt it such an unlikely part and the more 80; ss 1 fear. your wile Gru and Tackleton, than you do only she and her compeers. The next ful and courageous
the innocent