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intellectual, non-gossiping homes, and we make it a point of honour to go round next day and call on our friends and profess loudly that we would not live in that noisy, rattling, dusty, windy place for anything you could give us.

“The children are very happy and sunburnt, and growing by inches every week, it seems to me. Toto wishes us to give up calling him by this pet diminutive, and give him his full title of Reginald. His foible is to appear a big grown-up schoolboy, who understands all the rules of cricket, and never cuts his fingers even with his new knife of two blades. The big boy next door is quite the sporting man, and must be nearly twelve years old. His air of command when he rides up on his pony, whistles for his dog, and throws the bridle to Reggy, is worthy of a ‘’Varsity eight’ man. Good little Dulcie always hangs meekly round the boys, and is occasionally promoted to feed the pony with apples. She is sweet and kind to all living creatures, especially kittens, and, when not following her brother about, is always doing some charitable action. Sometimes she nurses a broken-legged doll, or tries to keep the chickens quiet in her lap, or sits in the sun with the old grey cat; or, if no other hospital work offers, she gathers up the weeds that have been thrown out on the