e of the valuable contributors
to this paper, were seated on two posts, playing the manly game
of bean-bag. The bag was coming to the editor, but somehow, when
he grabbed for it, it fell on the ground. Our editor immediately
sprang after it, but, in doing so, his dress caught on the post,
and he hung up there. He was rescued by Miss Le G. He is now
doing well.

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POOR PATTY.

Little Patty looked very poor indeed. She sat on a rough stone
that was used as a door-step, with her head resting on her hand.
Her beautiful golden curls fell way below her waist, over her
white neck and shoulders, which her ragged dress did not hide.

Patty had been stolen by gypsies three years before, when she
was seven years old. She was very pretty, and because of that
the gypsies had stolen her to sell. One night she ran away from
the gypsies, and during the day she wandered on till she came to
a large town. When it was night again, she was tired and hungry,
and she sat down on a door-step and fell fast asleep, and here
she was found by Mrs. Bruce, who took her home, thinking she
could make her useful in running errands.

So Patty was sitting on the door-step when a rough voice called
from inside the house, "Be off with you, you lazy thing! Didn't
I tell you an hour ago to be off for the milk? Be off with you,
I say."

Poor Patty got off rather slowly, for she didn't feel well, and
ran down the street and didn't stop till she got to the store.
But coming home she didn't run so fast, for her head ached, and
when she got home Nan Bruce scolded her. In a few minutes Patty
went up-stairs to her poor garret, where she slept, and threw
herself upon the bed, and cried herself to sleep. When she woke
up she had a high fever, and in a short time she was delirious.
Nan was much alarmed, and sent for the doctor, who said she had
scarlet fever, and he got a good nurse for her. For three months
no one expected she would recover, but after that she began to
get well.

One morning, when she was nearly well, she said suddenly to the
doctor, "Doctor, it seems to me as if I had seen you before."

"You have, I guess," said the doctor, laughing. "I have been
here every day for three months."

"I don't mean that," said Patty, "but I feel as if I had seen