de the big tent to see the doings, and daytimes he had a
two-cent side-show in a small tent of his own, where the monkey played
wonderful tricks, and marched to the music of the grand harmonica.

At last he came to grandma, and told her that as for the Clown, he was a
kind-hearted, sensible man, but that the others were commonly either
drunk, or cross, or both, and that he had to travel nights, wet or dry,
and that he was sick of that kind of life. He sold the monkey to a
hand-organ man, and went back to live in his old home; and the last that
was known of Jacko he was seen in the streets of a town carrying round
the hand-organ man's hat for pennies.

It was grandma and Mr. Stimpcett who saw him, as they were riding past
in the vehicle; and he saw them, and gave a bound, and broke his string,
and leaped into the vehicle, and clasped his paws round grandma's neck;
and the hand-organ man was obliged to place six maple-sugar cakes in a
row upon the sidewalk before Jacko would return to him.

The sleek, long-faced man made his fortune by selling the Sudden Remedy,
but few of those who bought it and took it knew what old lady it was who
sold him the recipe for it.

* * * * *

The Family Story-Teller's next was a story of mistakes, and odd mistakes
they were.

THE CHILDREN'S WEDDING.

It very often happens that children of royal families are by their
parents or by wise statesmen engaged to marry each other almost as soon
as they are born, but the actual weddings do not generally take place
until the children are grown up. One of these weddings did, however,
actually take place, a great many years ago, between two children, and
the story of it is as follows:

January 15, 1478, was the day appointed, when Richard, Duke of York,
second son of Edward IV., aged four years, and created already Duke of
Norfolk, Earl Warren and Surrey, and Earl Marshal of England, in right
of his intended wife, was to lead to the altar the little girl whose
tiny hand would bestow upon him the immense estates and riches of the
Norfolk inheritance.

The little Lady Anne, who was, as an old book informs us, the richest
and most noble match of that time, appears to have been two years older
than her intended husband, and must have reached the advanced age of six
years! She does not appear to have objected to the match, but to have
been quite ready to act her part in the pageant, and no doubt the little
Du