te neighbor. They placed all
this on the back of a bookcase lying upset, and sat around it. Solomon
John came rushing in from the gate.

"The last load is coming! We are all moved!" he exclaimed; and the
little boys joined in a chorus, "We are moved! we are moved!"

Mrs. Peterkin looked sadly round; the kitchen utensils were lying on the
parlor lounge, and an old family gun on Elizabeth Eliza's hat-box. The
parlor clock stood on a barrel; some coal-scuttles had been placed on
the parlor table, a bust of Washington stood in the door-way, and the
looking-glasses leaned against the pillars of the piazza. But they were
moved! Mrs. Peterkin felt, indeed, that they were very much moved.

THE PETERKINS DECIDE TO LEARN THE LANGUAGES.

CERTAINLY now was the time to study the languages. The Peterkins had
moved into a new house, far more convenient than their old one, where
they would have a place for everything and everything in its place. Of
course they would then have more time.

Elizabeth Eliza recalled the troubles of the old house, how for a long
time she was obliged to sit outside of the window upon the piazza, when
she wanted to play on her piano.

Mrs. Peterkin reminded them of the difficulty about the table-cloths.
The upper table-cloth was kept in a trunk that had to stand in front of
the door to the closet under the stairs. But the under table-cloth was
kept in a drawer in the closet. So, whenever the cloths were changed,
the trunk had to be pushed away under some projecting shelves to make
room for opening the closet-door (as the under table-cloth must be taken
out first), then the trunk was pushed back to make room for it to be
opened for the upper table-cloth, and, after all, it was necessary to
push the trunk away again to open the closet-door for the knife-tray.
This always consumed a great deal of time.

Now that the china-closet was large enough, everything could find a
place in it.

Agamemnon especially enjoyed the new library. In the old house there was
no separate room for books. The dictionaries were kept upstairs, which
was very inconvenient, and the volumes of the Encyclopaedia could not be
together. There was not room for all in one place. So from A to P were
to be found downstairs, and from Q to Z were scattered in different
rooms upstairs. And the worst of it was, you could never remember
whether from A to P included P. "I always went upstairs after P," said
Agamemnon, "and then always fo