for conversation, ual solace of this kind.

    `Do you like peppermints, young sir? required only a tacit ansation of ticle in question.

    ttle girls suggested to uncle Pullet t cakes, of ock under lock and key for e eating on  days: but t tempting delicacy bet Pullet desired to abstain from eating it till tray and tes came, since  mind t mucty, s it y to eat it, but tom, cunity o in  tes, and c furtively. As for Maggie, becoming fascinated, as usual, by a print of Ulysses and Nausicaa, ty Scripture tly let fall , crus beneat - a source of so mucation to aunt Pullet and conscious disgrace to Maggie t so despair of o-day, till after some reflection, it occurred to  Lucy ure on asking for a tune. So so Lucy, and Lucy,  up quietly to une, uncle?

    Lucy t it ional talent in uncle Pullet t tiful tunes, and indeed t ligy of   to begin ood  up, and kne o play beforeoget Mr Pullets cer  of t entire nullity tributed to it.

    But uncle Pullet ed to ex , never depreciated it by a too ready consent. `ell see about it, aining from any sign of compliance till a suitable number of minutes   social occasions, and in this way fenced himself in from much painful confusion and perplexing freedom of will.

    Peren Maggies enjoyment  time se forgot t s tom ime `ty imes comforted  Maggie could look ratty noe of  om, put om, isnt it pretty?

    Lest you s sing insensibility in tom t  any neoo  tell you t  so make .  reme milksop not to say angrily, `Look tment ioned, as it