Arithmetic to the ordinary person is a thing of real life; we count chiefly in connection with money, with making things, with distributing things, or with arranging things, and we count carefully when we keep scores in games; in adult life we seldom or never count or perform arithmetical operations for sheer pleasure in the activity, but there are many children who do so in the same spirit as we play patience or chess.

But, surely, this clear-seeing, to be but for an odd time; and afterward we each again to earnestness in our way with the other; but alway, even when we did make to show indifference, we to be something troubled inwardly with sweet flashings of our bewildered natures.

At last we beheld, with wonder and delight, the pride of the West Indies, the Cabbage PalmsPalmistes of the French settlerswhich botanists have well named Oreodoxa, the 'glory of the mountains.'

In this, we merely[*] upheld what was due to us by constitution, by treaties, by the coronation-oath of every king,the right to be "governed as a self-consistent, independent country, by our native institutions, according to our own laws."

Do they learn as readily us the white children?

Your lorea hideous mask wherein Self-worship hides its monstrous sin: Music and verse, divinely wed How can these live where love is dead?

Is it not very difficult to believe thoroughly that the great God whom we hear about, really and truly cares how we behave and what we doreally and truly listens to our prayersreally and truly takes as much interest in us as our earthly Fathers and Mothers do?

" "We uster tap maple trees en hev big gathering foh ter make maple sugar dat war while I lived at Gracey.

Oh, that we would spread them and fly to the heights our longing eyes behold, the heights we dream of when we cannot see them, the heights we foolishly and mistakenly expect to climb some day.

We of course had neither right nor power to push our opposition beyond friendly warning and advice; and when we found, thanks to Lady Maldon, who was vehemently in favor of the matchto, in Edith's position, the dazzling temptation of a splendid establishment, and to Mr. Harlowe's eloquent and impassioned pleadingsthat the rich man's offer was irrevocably accepted, we of course forebore from continuing a useless and irritating resistance.

"We sally forth from here to the Arcadian Rooms, situated in this building.

This is quite opposed to my wishes, nor is it Sir Roger's doing, but Schmidt, the courier, knowing what is seemly on those occasionswhat he has always done for all former freshly-wed couples whom he has escortedsecured it before we could prevent him.

Here's to them that lo'es us, or lenns us a lift.

The long married, the newly wed, the affianced, the suspected, the débutantes, the post-marriageable, every one approved.

Eyes, strange eyes, I said, what will ye? Spirit of me, that within there dwelled securely as yet, Occultly wed to my living senses Demon-like, half smiling thy solemn message, Thou dost nod to me, Death presaging! Ha!

2. That we too oft are too desirous of other guests in our hearts beside him: O how much corruption, sin and death lodge within our souls!

"We oughter look up some huntin'," he continued.

While the eggs simmered, the two ladies thee-ed us prayerfully and tearfully, hoping that God would save our country from blood, unless blood must be shed to preserve Law and Liberty.

But you make up whatever we lack, When we, too rarely, come together, More potent than the almanac, You bring the ideal April weather; When you are with us we defy The blustering air, the lowering sky; In spite of Winter's icy darts, We've spring and sunshine in our hearts.

"Life hath its | pleasures, but | fading are | they as the | flowers; Sin hath its | sorrows, and | sadly we | turn'd from those | bowers; Bright were the | angels be | -hind with their | falchions of |

The midnight calls, up rise the dead, And dance in airy swarms there; We twain quit not our earthly bed, I lie wrapt in your arms there.

" "That may be, but we allthey allknow where they are likely to come from.

Mother keeps all the magazines an' paper novils, an' we allus reads 'em afore we sells 'em.

We have lost only one of our number since we camenamely, Diggory, the market-gardener, from Glasgow, who went out one morning to botanize, and never came back.

Must not we prevent this eventpeaceably if we canforcibly if we must?