they give lessons. The Turk smiled at the idea. The
first step was taken. The teachers knew they were expected to teach.

MODERN IMPROVEMENTS AT THE PETERKINS'.

AGAMEMNON felt that it became necessary for him to choose a profession.
It was important on account of the little boys. If he should make a
trial of several different professions he could find out which would be
the most likely to be successful, and it would then be easy to bring up
the little boys in the right direction.

Elizabeth Eliza agreed with this. She thought the family occasionally
made mistakes, and had come near disgracing themselves. Now was their
chance to avoid this in future by giving the little boys a proper
education.

Solomon John was almost determined to become a doctor. From earliest
childhood he had practiced writing recipes on little slips of paper.
Mrs. Peterkin, to be sure, was afraid of infection. She could not bear
the idea of his bringing one disease after the other into the family
circle. Solomon John, too, did not like sick people. He thought he might
manage it if he should not have to see his patients while they were
sick. If he could only visit them when they were recovering, and when
the danger of infection was over, he would really enjoy making calls.

He should have a comfortable doctor's chaise, and take one of the little
boys to hold his horse while he went in, and he thought he could get
through the conversational part very well, and feeling the pulse,
perhaps looking at the tongue. He should take and read all the
newspapers, and so be thoroughly acquainted with the news of the day to
talk of. But he should not like to be waked up at night to visit. Mr.
Peterkin thought that would not be necessary. He had seen signs on doors
of "Night Doctor," and certainly it would be as convenient to have a
sign of "Not a Night Doctor."

Solomon John thought he might write his advice to those of his patients
who were dangerously ill, from whom there was danger of infection. And
then Elizabeth Eliza agreed that his prescriptions would probably be so
satisfactory that they would keep his patients well,--not too well to do
without a doctor, but needing his recipes.

Agamemnon was delayed, however, in his choice of a profession, by a
desire he had to become a famous inventor. If he could only invent
something important, and get out a patent, he would make himself known
all over the country. If he could get out a patent he would b