His "Lady Mother," as he always called the gentle, brown-eyed being who ruled his father and himself, had not cared to have her little Galahad mingle with the rougher city boys who thronged the streets, and had kept him with herself a great deal.

Mazaro passed silently through the group about the door-steps, and not many minutes afterward, Galahad Shaughnessy, having taken a place among the exiles, rose with the remark that the old gentleman would doubtless be willing to tell them good-night.

The Mexican physician, at Galahad's request, told Mazaro that at the next meeting of the burial society he might and must occupy his accustomed seat without fear of molestation; and he did so.

"Gentlemen," said Galahad, "comrades, this may be the last time we ever meet together an unbroken body.

"Who knows," continued the speaker, "but Senor Benito, though strong and sound and har'ly thirty-seven"here all smiled"may be taken ill tomorrow?" Martinez smiled across to the tall, gray Benito on Galahad's left, and he, in turn, smilingly showed to the company a thin, white line of teeth between his moustachios like distant reefs.

"Who knows?" resumed Galahad, when those who understood English had explained in Spanish to those who did not, "but they may soon need the services not only of our good doctor heer, but of our society; and that Fernandez and Benigno, and Gonzalez and Dominguez, may not be chosen to see, on that very schooner lying at the Picayune Tier just now, their beloved remains and so forth safely delivered into the hands and lands of their people.

"And now, gentlemen," Galahad recommenced, "fellow-exiles, once more.

"Ye see, friends," said Galahad in a true Irish whisper, as M. D'Hemecourt left the apartment, "her poseetion has been a-growin' more and more embarrassin' daily, and the operaytions of our society were likely to make it wurse in the future; wherefore I have lately taken stepsI say I tuke steps this morn to relieve the old gentleman's distresses and his daughter's" He paused.

Galahad stepped forward to meet her, took her hand, led her to the head of the board, and turning to the company, said: "Friends and fellow-patriots, Misthress Shaughnessy.

Galahad turned with a puzzled look to M. D'Hemecourt, and guessed the truth.

And when his wounds were countedthey were just the number of the Café des Exilés' children, less Galahad.

In the files of the old "Picayune" and "Price-Current" of 1837 may be seen the mention of Galahad Shaughnessy among the merchants"our enterprising and accomplished fellow-townsman," and all that.

Thus the ring of raconteurs telling blackguardly stories around the stoves in Hooker's Bend stores, are, in reality, exercising one another in the more delicate sentiments of life, and may very well be classed as a round table of Sir Galahads, sans peur et sans reproche.

No wonder that these English have been what they have been for centuries, while their heroes have been the Galahads, and their Homer the Mort d'Arthur.

The Arthurian story which produced only middling moralizing in the Idylls, gave us as well the supremely written Homeric episode of the Morte d'Arthur, and the sharp and defined beauty of Sir Galahad and the Lady of Shallott.

Robert M. Gay (A); 6Aug57; R196843. GAY, ZHENYA. Galahads and pussy-cats.

JUERS, MARGARET, tr. Galahads and pussy-cats.

SEE Baird, George M. P. SPEYER, GERARD W. Galahads and pussy-cats.

Galahads and pussy-cats.

Robert M. Gay (A); 6Aug57; R196843. GAY, ZHENYA. Galahads and pussy-cats.

JUERS, MARGARET, tr. Galahads and pussy-cats.

SEE Baird, George M. P. SPEYER, GERARD W. Galahads and pussy-cats.

Galahads and pussy-cats.

"My dear little Sir Galahads," she said, bending over to give each of the boys a good-night kiss, "you will be 'really truly' knights if you can live up to the motto you have chosen.

" "The dear little Sir Galahads," she said, "I sent for you to tell you about them.