In the midst of this, a part broke off and took up, discordantly, the refrain, "Polly, put the kettle on, we'll all have tea;" others complicated the confusion further with, "Cruel, cruel Polly Hopkins, treat me so,oh, treat me so!"

In the midst of this, a part broke off and took up, discordantly, the refrain, "Polly, put the kettle on, we'll all have tea;" others complicated the confusion further with, "Cruel, cruel Polly Hopkins, treat me so,oh, treat me so!"

At the moment I had reached the top-most pinnacle of my wrath, and was darting lightnings on all mankind, Polly showed in Lieutenant Herbert, with his book of promised engravings.

" We placed him on the couch, and Polly came running in.

Polly, who thought but of the body, insisted on bringing him "a good heavy-glass of Port-wine sangaree, with toasted crackers in it"; and wouldn't let him speak till he had drunken and eaten.

You wouldn't hang a starving woman or child who stole the baker's loaf from your window-sill this morning before Polly had time to take it in, would you?

" "Not even Polly?" "Oh, yes!

Polly had come up early to say to "Laury" (for Polly was a free and independent American girl of forty-five) that "there'd be so much goin' to the door, and such, Betsy Ann had best be handy by, to answer the bell.

Polly had come up early to say to "Laury" (for Polly was a free and independent American girl of forty-five) that "there'd be so much goin' to the door, and such, Betsy Ann had best be handy by, to answer the bell.

" As usual, Polly's plans were excellent, and adopted.

Polly, whom it is both impossible and irrelevant to describe, took the opportunity to scrub the house from top to bottom.

" So was not Polly.

Polly had lived with us always.

Betsy Ann had grinned a great many times, and asked Polly over and over, "Where the presents all was?"

However, here Polly snubbed her, and told her to "shet up her head quick.

" "Such a piece of work as I hed to ghet up that critter's mouth!" said Polly, laughing, as she assisted Laura in putting the last graces to my simple toilet before tea.

" "How did you shut it, Polly?" said Laura, who was very much surprised, like myself, at the non-arrivals, and who constantly imagined she heard the bell.

I told her," added Polly, whisperingly, and holding her hand over her mouth to keep from loud laughter,"I told her I'd seen a couple on 'em done up in beautiful silver paper!"

He then came to a close, to Polly's delight, who said she "had expected nothin' but what the old gentleman would hold on an hour, missionaries to China, and all.

Betsy Ann, who was mercifully admitted to the wedding, pronounced it without hesitation the "flattest thing she ever see,"and was straightway dismissed by Polly, with an extra frosted cake, and a charge to "get along home with herself."

When we sat down that next day at the table, I poured the tea into a cup, and placed it on the prettiest little silver tray, and Polly handed it to Mrs. Harris as if she had done that particular thing all her life.

QUIGG, JANE. Polly Peters.

Polly at Pixie's Haunt.

Polly's Polly at boarding school.

Polly's Polly at boarding school.