In the entresol Basilio saw Sinang, as small as when our readers knew her before, although a little rounder and plumper since her marriage.

There lie, side by side, on the same level, in cells the size of their bodies, and only distinguished by a marble turban somewhat longer or deepersomewhat rounder or squarerpersonages, in life, far as heaven and earth asunder, in birth, in station, in gifts of nature, and in long laboured acquirements.

Late afternoons the burrowing owls may be seen blinking at the doors of their hummocks with perhaps four or five elfish nestlings arow, and by twilight begin a soft whoo-oo-ing, rounder, sweeter, more incessant in mating time.

Perhaps they are a little rounder than the Snowberry's, a little more pointed than the Partridge-berry's; sometimes you might mistake them for the one, sometimes for the other.