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 for snow, because the trees were all green, awfully green, and the flitter was part red, and pink, and yellow, and all sorts of colors. Uncle Rob said he was glad he saw the picture, because it made him feel differently toward Aaron Burr; for a great deal might be excused in a fellow who was in a habit of seeing things like that. Bess took the picture away from me and put in under her darning basket; because she said that she couldn't forget it while it was in sight. We remembered the picture afterward, when we were coming back from the picnic;—but it wasn't hurt any. Dad said we ought to have been more careful of it for he had to give as good as two frames for it, because the woman had painted the other picture on both sides of an academy-board, and had to have it framed on both sides. It was the same scene, only one was in winter and the other in summer, and she wanted them so that she could have out the one which fitted the season best. She was an awfully clever woman. The summer scene had swans on the water, and in the winter one, she changed them into icebergs. It changed the size of things so, by comparison, that when you looked at first one and then the other, you