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I was shown into the parlor--a comfortable room, back of which was a most ho Mrs Bachelor's co, I noticed that her husband's desk, which stood in the center of the study, was streith dolls, and paraphernalia closely related thereto My observations were interrupted by the entrance of Mrs Bachelor, elcomed me in her cordial, cheery way A aveHe excused himself in a little while, and went into his study He had, so his wife explained, been ill with a cold for a day or two, and had been working at ho trial of an i the study, a scene occurred which I shall endeavor to give you as near to the life as possible As a matter of course he steered directly for his desk, and his eye irandchildren, variously disposed thereon

"Well, I declare!" he exclaiathered up the whole crop--there were fully a dozen dolls, in all stages of developery of all kinds

After du the obnoxious eleru sorted out his law-papers, and went to work But soon after he had cleared his visage, as it were, his shter--a pretty child, four years old--ran into the rooe It did not take her long to grasp the situation Running to the divan, she uttered a series of cries, indicative both of alarm and displeasure

"What--what--what is the otten his offense by this tihty papa!" cried the child; "what did you disturve my dollies for?"

"What did you put thenantly; "the idea! I haven't a spot on earth I can call my own"

"You've just mussed their best frocks all up," continued the child, ithout paying the slightest attention to her father's vigorous protest, was rapidly replacing her family, puppies, kittens, and all, on the desk

"I tell you I can't have them here! I have important papers around, and I must be allowed to work in peace Take them off!"

He started to sweep theirl uttered a shriek