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Rh eral-clothes-press-inspector-head-superintendent gave a jump, and called to the old Chinese, “They are running away! they are running away!”

At this she grew a little frightened, and jumped quickly over the ridge into a low drawer near the window.

Here lay three or four packs of cards, which were not complete, and a little puppet-show, which was set up as well as it was possible to do. A play was being performed, and all the ladies, Diamonds as well as Hearts, Clubs and Spades, sat in the front row, and fanned themselves with the tulips they held in their hands, while behind them stood all the knaves ready to wait upon them when they wanted anything. The play was about two persons who could not have each other as they wished, at which the Shepherdess wept, for it was her own history.

“I cannot bear it any longer,” said she; “I must get out of the drawer.”

But when she had got down on the floor, and looked up to the table, she saw that