nd dog, and
I thought I could see a white nose. And it kept jumping about from one
side of the bridge to the other. Oh, I hope none of my readers will ever
be so frightened as I was then. I was too frightened to run back because
I was afraid it would chase me and I couldn't get past it, it moved so
quick, and then it just made one spring right on me and I felt its claws
and I screamed and fell down. It rolled off to one side and laid there
quite quiet but I didn't dare move and I don't know what would have
become of me if Amos Cowan hadn't come along that very minute with a
lantern. And there was me sitting in the middle of the bridge and that
awful thing beside me. And what do you think it was but a big umbrella
with a white handle? Amos said it was his umbrella and it had blown away
from him and he had to go back and get the lantern to look for it. I
felt like asking him what on earth he was going about with an umbrella
open when it wasent raining. But the Cowans do such queer things. You
remember the time Jerry Cowan sold us God's picture. Amos took me right
home and I was thankful for I don't know what would have become of me
if he hadn't come along. I couldn't sleep all night and I never want to
have any more adventures like that one.

CECILY KING.

PERSONALS

Mr. Dan King felt somewhat indisposed the day after Christmas--probably
as the result of too much mince pie. (DAN, INDIGNANTLY:--"I wasn't. I
only et one piece!")

Mr. Peter Craig thinks he saw the Family Ghost on Christmas Eve. But
the rest of us think all he saw was the white calf with the red tail.
(PETER, MUTTERING SULKILY:--"It's a queer calf that would walk up on end
and wring its hands.")

Miss Cecily King spent the night of Dec. 20th with Miss Kitty Marr. They
talked most of the night about new knitted lace patterns and their beaus
and were very sleepy in school next day. (CECILY, SHARPLY:--"We never
mentioned such things!")

Patrick Grayfur, Esq., was indisposed yesterday, but seems to be
enjoying his usual health to-day.

The King family expect their Aunt Eliza to visit them in January. She
is really our great-aunt. We have never seen her but we are told she is
very deaf and does not like children. So Aunt Janet says we must make
ourselves scarece when she comes.

Miss Cecily King has undertaken to fill with names a square of the
missionary quilt which the Mission Band is making. You pay five cents