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"Let's don't waste another minute," she interrupted briskly "I shouldn't wonder it was after four o'clock by this time, and we both need money Hurry, Herbert!"

"But didn't you say----" He paused to rub his head "You said I'd feel so good I wouldn't mind if I--if----"

"No I said, 'Hurry'!"

"Well----" And though he felt that a subtle injustice lurked somewhere, he was unable to think the ave up trying Nevertheless, as he obeyed her, and began to "hurry," there rey and underhand process he had been committed to acquiescence in an unfair division of labour

In this he was not mistaken An hour later he and Florence were on their way ho carried the basket thither, was now carrying it thence Moreover, his burden was precisely as heavy on this ho at the fish store, for, covered by a discreet newspaper, the preserve and pickle jars still renant contents intact The fish man had explained in terms derisive, but plain, the difference between a fish man and a fisherman He had maintained his definitions of the two econouments on the part of the bait-dealers, and in the face of reductions that finally reive fifty cents, or ten cents, or one cent, he said: and he couldn't furnish the address of anybody else that would His fish caain: and the only people he knew that did any fishing were ht possibly be willing to accept the angle worenerosity including so ed members of the c'lection On account of these latter, he jocosely professed hiht work loose--and altogether he was theman they had ever met

Anticlimax was never the stimulant of amiability, and, after an altercation on the pave which the derisive fish o on and take that there basket out of the neighbourhood, the cousins moved morbidly away, and walked for a time in silence