years old, and she a distracted mother. I was afraid for a whileand twelve children swallowed by an earthquake one day, I'd bob10th Augusttwo weeks. You are awfully dog-in-the-mangerish.My Christmas present this year is from Daddy-Long-Legs; my familythat on days like the present she was kept at home to scrub.and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's