thee, have you lost a pet
dog?"

12. The explanation that he had been stolen was scarcely necessary,
for Leicester, just awakening, vehemently expressed his inexplicable
joy by buoyantly vibrating between the two like the sounding lever
used in telegraphy (for to neither of them would he show partiality),
till, succumbing to ennui, he purported to take a recess, and sat on
his haunches, complaisantly contemplating his friends. It was truly an
interesting picture.

13. They reached their destination ere the sun was beneath the
horizon. Often during the summer Winthrop gallantly rowed from the
quay, with the naive and blithe Beatrice in her jaunty yachting suit,
but no coquetry shone from the depths of her azure eyes. Little Less,
their jocund confidante and courier (and who was as sagacious as a
spaniel), always attended them on these occasions, and whene'er they
rambled through the woodland paths. While the band played strains
from Beethoven Mendelssohn, Bach and others, they promenaded the long
corridors of the hotel. And one evening, as Beatrice lighted the gas
by the etagere in her charming boudoir in their suite of rooms, there
glistened brilliantly a valuable solitaire diamond on her finger.

14. Let us look into the future for the sequel to perfect this
romance, and around a cheerful hearth we see again Geoffrey and
Beatrice, who are paying due homage to their tiny friend Leicester.

SELECT READING.

1. A sacrilegious son of Belial, who suffered from bronchitis and
diphtheria, and had taken much morphine and quinine, having exhausted
his finances, in order to make good the deficit, resolved to ally
himself to a complaisant, lenient, docile, young woman of the
Caucasian race. Buying a calliope, a coral necklace, an illustrated
magazine, and a falcon from Asia, he took a suite of rooms, whose
acoustic properties were excellent, and engaged a Malay as his
coadjutor.

2. Being of an epicurean disposition, he threw the culinary department
of his hotel into confusion by ordering for his dinner vermicelli
soup, a bologna sausage, anchovies, calf's brains fried, and half
a gooseberry pie. For the resulting dyspepsia he took acetic and
tartaric acid, according to allopathy, and when his aunt, a fair
matron of six decades, called, he was tyrannic and combative, and
laughed like a brigand until she was obliged to succumb to his
contumacy.

3. Etiquette being thus annihilated, he became amenable to tenderer
passi