" "But, Aunty," I cried, "what a horribly prosy, matter-of-fact affair life would be in any other view!

" "If you only spoke experimentally, dear Aunty!

" "A plague take the moral, Aunty!

"You are treating me shabbily, aunty," said I. "See if I am ever a good girl again to please you!"

As I was helping my aunt exchange her bridal for her travelling attire, I whispered, "What say you to my doctrine of first love, aunty?" "That it finds its best refutation in my experience.

" "Well, you will allow that it's a great paradox, aunty!

You see, Aunty imagines things.

[Illustration: Aunty (wishing to be sympathetic).

Good-by, you darling aunty.

" "But aunty, he is not a young man," said Aniela, laughingly kissing her hands.

" "What has happened?" "You must not be shocked, aunty.

Is there, is there any "money in hens?" To show how a child would revel in a little rational enjoyment on a farm, read this dear little poem of James Whitcomb Riley's: AT AUNTY'S HOUSE.

One time when we's at aunty's house 'Way in the countrywhere They's ist but woods and pigs and cows, An' all's outdoors and air!

W'y wunst, one time when we wuz there, <i>We et out on the porch!</i> Wite where the cellar door wuz shut The table wuz; an' I Let aunty set by me an' cut My wittles upan' pie.

When Aunty Moravec noticed how they all liked it, she confided to Palko that she still had a whole book of such songs from America.

Once when Joe brought things from the city and Aunty Moravec gave him a good meal, he began to praise his new lady and asked sincerely, "But why did Lord de Gemer part with her?

" Their talk was broken off when they came to the bench, because Aunty Moravec came to meet them, all pale, "A special messenger brought a telegram.

She sat on the bench, signed the paper, and handed it to Aunty, then quickly she opened the telegram and read.

The Bacha very sadly stood at the foot of the lady's bed with both messages in his hands, and Aunty Moravec cried bitterly.

In those weeks that had passed so quickly, Madame Slavkovsky moved with her father and Aunty Moravec to the castle.

Aunty Moravec divided rolls and cookies among all.

, she 'ad none; and her 'usband, Mike O'Halloran, used to beat her for it sometimes, when he'd had a drop of What-killed-Aunty.

" "Did you cast your vote, Aunty?" "Oh, yes!

In the middle of it stands the little house where Aunty Täubchen says there lives a baptized Jew, who pays six farthings, on account of the Jewish community, to every man who brings him a dead rat; for the Jews are obliged to deliver annually to the State council five thousand rats' tails for tribute.

The richly embroidered stuffs of velvet and silk seemed fairly to speak to Beautiful Sara, and to flash and sparkle strange wonders back into her memory, and she really felt as if she were a little girl again, and as if Aunty Täubchen had kept her promise and taken her to the Frankfort Fair, and as if she were now at last standing before the beautiful garments of which she had heard so much.