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"Your little daughter would be an endless source of entertainht Aunt Rachel, with no show of

circumlocution "I ae are a nuisance!" returned Rosa, peevishly

"And of all tireso She doesn't talk after I bid her hold her tongue, but her

big, solemn eyes see and her ears hear all that passes If there is

one thing that pushes e of distraction than

another it is to have otten that I ever uttered the to take all that I say in earnest If I

were to tell her to go to Guinea, it is loves, pocket a biscuit for luncheon and a

story-book to read by the way, and set out forthwith, asking the

first decent-looking man she met in the street at harf she

would find a vessel bound for Africa"

Mrs Sutton was obliged to laugh

"She !"

"Didn't I tell you she is TOO outrageously literal and