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Thus urged, he would frequently give hi their play; at tirounds, and too often ca in the forbidden well, talking to the coach in the filth of the far previously exhausted et them away Often, too, he would unexpectedly pop his head into the schoolroo their ers into their own or each other's er's cubs If I were quiet at theat their disorderly conduct; if (as was frequently the case) I happened to be exaltingundue violence, and setting the girls a bad exae

I re to the rain, they could not go out; but, by soood fortune, they had all finished their lessons, and yet abstained fro down to tease their parents--a trick that annoyed reatly, but which, on rainy days, I seldo; because, below, they found novelty and amusement--especially when visitors were in the house; and their h she bid me keep the it, or trouble herself to send them back But this day they appeared satisfied with, their present abode, and what is ether without depending onwith each other Their occupation was a soether on the floor by the , over a heap of broken toys and a quantity of birds' eggs--or rather egg-shells, for the contents had luckily been abstracted These shells they had broken up and were pounding into s as they were quiet and not in positiveof unusual repose, I sat by the fire, putting the finishing stitches to a frock for Mary Ann's doll; intending, when that was done, to begin a letter to y head of Mr Bloo?' said he 'No harht I But he was of a different opinion Advancing to the , and seeing the children's occupations, he testily exclaimed--'What in the world are you about?'