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But it is the putting her up as well" com- plained Mrs. Fungus-Smythe,
She must go in with Janie, obarval Jessie ** Janie won't mind."
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I do hope" sighed Mrs. Smythe. "that Atut Elisa will not dress in an extravagantly old costume and in crude colours,"
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She is an old dear." sutil Jesnio, really does not matter in such a coowil as we shall have how she dresssa."
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The family of Fungus-Smythe was settled in Bshire Mr Baith had made a fortune in
The hall went off well, and punctasily at 2.15 business in the north, and desired to acquire a stopped, Mr. Starthe was imperative. His position to the south, away from the soll of daughters, several nieces, and other young ladies trade, as a country gentleman. He had purpleaded, but in vain. The music was hushed, chased an anolout manor house of Elizabethan and by half-past, the visitors had loft, that is to architecture, and trusted to being, absorbed into ay such us were not staying in the house, and the exclusive clues of County People. But the those who were retired to their rooms as Mr. Conaty People. a class, are suspicious and Smythe and the hat er extinguished the lights not expansive, and to obtain recognition it in the reception rooms. bahores the new comer to pay his footing. Ho must give shooting parties for the gentlemen and balls for the ladies.
The button boy. Herbert was his name, but he was generally called Horbay, hung about in the servants' hall. 'Nothing would induce him to go to bed early, he would retire when did Mr. Bauce, conchen of the Lampkins,
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At the same time that Mr. Smith acquired Reaumanoir Hall be summed his mother's name of Fungus, which he added to hẳn OWN, to differentiate himself from other Smiths, and to further emphasise his ris in the social scls, a converted his plain Smith into Emyth. But when it in said that Mr. Smith did this it must not be supposed that the prompting spirit lay within his ample breast. It was Mr. Smith who was ambitions, TO. 2, GOMES VILLAS, DE VEUX and endeavoured to obliterate the traces or trai that led from the mill in Lancashire to Beau Apply to=
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A great ball was to be given at Beaumanoir, to celebrate the coming of age of the young Squire," as Mrs Fungus-Smythe always now designated her son.
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And I say that I don't see why I should be put thiore sither." "protested the coackman.
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"Oh, I'm not afruid. I dare say it is sta but I objects to ruts. I objects to all noises at night, that I do. Shaver: Tell me the whole story, what was the boy murdered for?"
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I suppose it must be so," responded mother.
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** Indrel, I do not see what else can be done, Maru; the Lampkins will have the best badroom, and Uncle Fungus the little end room we call the powdering room, and the two cousins Fungus will have the milk-and-water room, and Aunt | Eliza, if she does oque, sad Jaun are to occupy
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"Yes," interrupted her mother, that in wattled, I have arranged all the particalurs. It is only the mutter of the muid and the coach- man that bothered me."
And I have solved that difficulty," said Jessie.
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** The servsats many toll him."”
They will be far too much accupied to think of ghosts,"
Bo it was settled.
That there butler-went-to-chemist-and-
It was winter time, like now, and he had a hot bottle in his bad, and he inelte i the wax on that of course he put the wax outside, out against the bottle."
"Of course," said Mr. Hunce.
And then he clapped it over the mouth of the pore boy."
“Pore boy,” repeated the coachman.
That smothered his sereanss, and it stiffed him as well."
"But how was it found out ?"
When the boy was dead-the wax got cold, and the butler had a trouble to get the plaster of, but he did it at last, and then ohucked the plater away out of the window into a bush. Where it 'ung." said the button boy solemnly.
"And he was discovered by it?" asked the coackman.
He was found out by it," said the boy. You see, the wax was set, hard, and when thst Tare butier tore it off, the wax stuck to the pore
age boy's lips and nostrils, and that left quite pictur on the plaster of where his mouth and nose had been. When the body was found next morning, there was wax sticking to the face, just at this places where it was misin' on the dischylon plaster. And it was proved that the butler had bought the planter, and so lie was
The page boy looked very blank when in formed that he was to be put for the night into the haunted room, but rallied when assured that it would be shared with him by Sir Tony Lump-convicted." kin'e coachmen.
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The dancing is to cease at two o'clock," said Mr. Smyth to her daughter Jessie.
"Your father is peremptory. We muy draw it out to half-past, but he says he will have all the lights out at two-thirty. He is an obstinate man. That is why I was forced to me the 0741
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And hung threw is Mr. Buse.Write Yes, he was hung," said the button boy, and what is uiere he was a fat. gross sort o man, much like you, Mr. Buuce, and they aren't hang him with an ordinary bell rope, so they had for him a ship's hawser."
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A ball in the country is a great undertaking. A cook has to be got down feet town, extra waiters have to be procured, and provision most be made for housing them. Then the cook at
It'a blood-thirsty cruelty." exclaimed Mr. the last moment makes demands for articles that Banco. I didn't think Mr. Smythe was expa-
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661 are not in the house, are not to bi secare ut You see, sir," said the houseksoper, the the grocer's in the nearest taun, and they hare place is so fall of guests that we really didn't to be wired for to be sent frvar London. The know where else to put you. Herbay had to patronage. dress specially ordered have arrived, but do not fit, and must be ultered. The ice has failed. vacate his room for Miss Thomas" The
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A sudden terror comes over the Lady of the house, some people of importance have not been asked by a hideous oversight. She had left the sending the cards to her daughter, he had not done it because she calculated on the cards being despatched by her mother.
To complicate matters Aurt Eliza was com ing
Aunt Eliza was an eminently kindly member of the Fang family, well-to-de bat not refined either in appearance or in matter.
Good gracious exclaimed Mrs. Fungus Smythe, on the morning before the ball Here is Aunt Eliza actually coming, and she has left our invitation-which wo nover expectost her to accept- —unacknowledged until now." What shall
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Put up with her of course," said Jessie.
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“But why did they not put me into Hovboy's room, and let Miss Thomas are the suhted room?" asked the coachman wrathfully
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Why this, Mrs. Jacks. It is like enough that there boy, Herbey, will be imaginiu' all sorts of ghastly things and dreamin' of 'en and. wakin' me up wi' screams in the night. Then. that'll shake my nerve, and, I tell yon, a concl.
as drivos & pair of 'ossos, and one inclived to stumble, don't art to have his nerves shook." Well, Mr. Bunce, here goes out the gas. Master has turned it off. Take your candle."
mighty short bit," "demurred the "It's coachman, "qan't you give me a couple of inches more? You see I'm five times as big as the boy and so take five times as long undressing.
The housekeeper graciously offered Mr. Bance longer candle.
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"Now then, Shaver, take the light, and lend the way."
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"OMAN AS A DOCTOR.
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By Mus. ERNEST HART. MBS. HART has the distinction of being the pioneer of women medical students, In the seventies she studied medicine in London and Paris, and h book entitled Diet in Sickness and in Health in a well. known and standard manual. A large part of her life has been dorated to Irish in dustry and technical education, to which cause she has contributed her private for- ture. The above-named article gives o sketch of woman's work in the medical pro- fession, and explains the career and pros pects of a woman doctor.
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By Mas. ADA 9. BALLIN. What mother or maid does not knoW Mrs. Ballin Very few we think. The adil or of The Halyand Womanhood has been the good counseller of the home circle for many a day, and her name is "familiar in our mouths as household words." Our article on Motherhood," from her pen, gives some practical advice and sympathy apon the duties and responsibilities of maternity.
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By Man, C.E. HUMPHRY Mas. C. E. HUMPHRY perhaps better known to the general public by the nume of "Madge," under which the ims- contributed the Girl' Gossip to Truth since those articles were first started. · She is the anthor of those popular works ep titled Mannera for Men, Manners for Women, and a Word to Women. The arti- cle we have obtained from her pen is very vivacious, and likely to prove of absorbing interest both to marriageable maideus and those who have passed that eventful stage. Hongkong, 23rd February, 1901, [568