" "Now why in the wide world didn't she remember that when we've done nothing but talk about Emily Leonard for weeks!" cried Mrs. Smith's sister-in-law impatiently.

"I'm sure I'm not," said his sister, defensively.

" "Not I," said the younger sister, cavalierly; "he didn't come to see me." Whereupon Elinor smoothed the two small wrinkles of impatience out of her brow, tucked her letter into her bosom, and went down to meet the early morning caller.

" "Singular man!" said the comely sister Lize, who now resumed her knitting.

Meanwhile Eubulus has explained to his son Cleander how Silvia is really his own daughter, and consequently Cleander's sister.

"Leave them," said his sister, contemptuously.

"This child!" ejaculated the younger sister, Miss Eliza, doubtfully, adjusting her glasses and leaning over to take a closer look at the proposed addition to the family.

"Yes," said his sister, firmly, "the whole of it, so far as we are concerned.

" "Dear me, Uncle Julius, you must be joking," said my sister-in-law incredulously.

Is that the sort o' man to teach litteratur in Pattaquasset?' "'Now, Sam Deacon, what do you expect to do by all this fuss you're making?' said his sister, judicially.

" "I neither affect nor feel any gaiety," said her sister, mildly.

She had another sister namedI don't remember her name.

Miss Augustine, saintly sister, who tries to "turn the curse from Whiteladies, by her own prayers and those of her almsmen.

"You can bring your beer with you," said his sister, sharply.

But, sister, softly, lest my mother hear.

"I hope it will," said her sister-in-law, sympathetically.

" "Now that I recall it, his voice did resemble Cadmus'," said the sister, more thoughtfully.

The child, unquestionably a sister, had likely died in early years.

BAIREUTH, WILHELMINA, MARGRAVINE OF, sister of Frederick the Great, left "Memoirs" of her time (1709-1758).

"Mind your own business," said his sister, violently.

" "I've no doubt," said his sister, bitterly; "it's very pretty, but it won't do.