" "Not you and mamma.

"Willie, your mamma wants you," she said; and Willie hastened up-stairs to his mother's room.

well enough, he could not think how a person outside might be able to do it; and he thought the best way, if such a difficulty should occur, would be to take the lock off his door, and put it on mamma's till a better one could be got.

" "Couldn't I do that, mamma?" said Willie, very humbly, for he thought of what his mother had said about his sleeping powers.

"If I could but go to bed after mamma was asleep," he said, "I could tie a string to my hair, and then slip a loop at the other end over mamma's wrist, so that when she sat up to attend to Agnes, she would pull my hair and wake me.

"If I could but go to bed after mamma was asleep," he said, "I could tie a string to my hair, and then slip a loop at the other end over mamma's wrist, so that when she sat up to attend to Agnes, she would pull my hair and wake me.

All the way he kept thinking with himself something after this fashion "Mamma won't wake me, and Agnes can't; and the worst of it is that everybody else will be just as fast asleep as I shall be.

" "Do you know, mamma, I think I was waked up just in time to help you.

And once he jumped out of bed crying, "Where is she, mamma?

You may be sure his mamma let him have a long sleep in the morning always, to make up for being disturbed in the night.

I suppose this is D, mamma.

His argument was real and ready: "Not believe in a God, mamma?

The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap, When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.

'Well,' she said, 'mamma says he has been angry with his son for fifteen years.'

'For what?' said I. 'Because he refused to become a soldier; mamma told me that.'

" "Oh, I don't mind, if you don't, mamma; but I thought you wouldn't like it, and it would spoil the day.

They had taken possession of him from the first, when Elsie, hanging back, clung to her mother and whispered agitatedly, "Oh, mamma, mamma, it was what you said last week about Tommy's invitation that made me think ofof inviting Uncle John; but perhaps I ought to have told youhave asked you.

They had taken possession of him from the first, when Elsie, hanging back, clung to her mother and whispered agitatedly, "Oh, mamma, mamma, it was what you said last week about Tommy's invitation that made me think ofof inviting Uncle John; but perhaps I ought to have told youhave asked you.

The orchestra and the audience were before her; and she knew that Papa and Mamma Balbino were watching her from the side with anxious hearts.

Papa and Mamma Balbino were waiting to receive the triumphant cantatrice, as she left the stage.

"I will dress now; and if Mamma Balbino is at leisure, I should like to have her come and talk with me while I breakfast.

" "I will tell you about it, dear mamma," replied Rosa; "but I must beg you to excuse me just now; for I am really very much flurried and fatigued.

The child laughed and clapped her hands at every caper; and if her steed rested for a moment, she called out impatiently, "More agin, mamma!"

But mamma was thinking of the picture she wanted to make, and at last she said: "We sha'n't get to Banbury Cross to-day, Lila Blumen; so you must fall off your horse, darling, and nursey will take you, while I go to fetch my crayons."

"That is a secret between mamma and I," he replied.