There on a Sunday you would see the fashion of the neighbourhood, for the planters' ladies rode in on pillions, and the planters themselves, in gold-embroidered waistcoats and plush breeches and new-powdered wigs, leaned on the tombstones, and exchanged snuffmulls and gossip.

In a corner there was an American rocking chair; on the table before the window lay a brocaded plush cover; there was a pretty spread on the bed; on the walls, in carved-wood frames, hung the photographs of the children and grandchildren who had gone away; on the bureau stood high vases and a couple of candlesticks, with thick, spiral candles in them.

The night gloom in the hall brings back to me the 'tween-decks of the old tub of a boat; the green-plush seats of a sleeping-car remind me of the Kut Sang's dining-saloon, and even a bonfire in an adjacent yard recalls the odour of burned rice on the galley fire left by the panic-stricken Chinese cook.

There on the centre-table you will discover "Snow Bound," by John Greenleaf Whittier; Tupper's Poems; a large embossed Bible; the family plush album; and a book, with a gilt ladder on the cover which leads upward to gilt stars, called the "Path of Life."

Then, through crimson plush curtains with gold appliqué Florentine patterned borders, we were ushered into the drawing-room.

I will not trouble the reader with my thoughts about the first-night audience, strange assembly as it is,those I reserve for my Memoirs,nor the humiliating story of how I got lost during the entr'acte in a lot of red plush passages, and saw the third act from the gallery.

A thousand memories rushed upon me at the sight of the long plush coat which I had so often buttoned about her, with a troubled heart.

"Little gunner man, wore red plush bags and a blue velvet hat?

" The beautiful souvenir is encased in an elegant plush box.