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Elliot was spokesarden as you desired us, mother, and Erasmo and I picked the peas, while sister held the basket; presently we heard a noise in the brush fence like sohtened (here he laughed), and wanted to run to the house, but we told her it was only a sheep or dog outside; but it turned out to be the Padre, and he came and helped us to pick Mother, he told us such pretty stories; I can't think of the na and hard But I reood man who lived in Asia, and one day he lost his crucifix; he looked everywhere for it, but could not find it; and a long ti by the sea-shore and looked out on the water, and oh, what do you think! He saw his crucifix reat crab paddled out to land and laid his crucifix down before hiain Noasn't that funny I can't think of the good man's name, Saint--Somebody--Saint--Saint--"

"Brother, I reckon it was Saint Crab!"

"No, no! It was the crab that found the crucifix, and I think he was smarter than the saint"

"Now, Florry, should I repeat this legend to Aunt Lizzy, it would be impossible to convince her that it proceeded from the Padre's lips Yet even prelates of Rome scruple not to narrate as miracles tales equally absurd, where their auditory is sufficiently ignorant to credit them Pardon my interruption, Elliot, and finish your story," continued Mary

"Mother, the Padre talked to Erasmo in Spanish I could not understand all he said, but it was about cohts there When he came to the rows you left for seed, I told him we must come to the house, and asked him to come in; but he would not, and offered us all some money, and said we must not tell a soul we had seen hih the fence, and just caht not to coarden But oh, mother, would you believe it! he told Eraso to bathe to- to the river, heHe told him in Spanish, but I understood what he said Noasn't that teaching him to tell a lie? and he a Padre too! Mother, don't you think he ought to be ashamed?"