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 "Really then, you are turning philosopher, and so I guppose, havedrawn your comparisons. It would be a grand idea for you to write a book and make yourself the heroine.

"And get shipwrecked on the same island and finally become Crusoe's wife,"

"Oh fie! can't have a book without turning it into a love story. I wish somebody would offer a prize for the most interesting novel that can be written without mentioning that subject. I believe it would be a benefit to the human race. Some of the girls at school are fairly bewitched with some novels which they bring with them sometimes, and when they can catch a moment that the teacher's back is turned, steal them out from under their other books and pretend to be studying very hard when he looks towards them again. It excited my curiosity, and one day I watched my opportunity to get hold of one of them, and such a silly mess of stuff I never saw."

"That is the way you pass judgment is it, assume that all other stories bear the same stamp."

"Oh, don't talk to me any more, I want to finish this equation. Wouldn't it be a joke on Tom Middleton if I should do it without any, assistance, he was so confident none of us could, because his brother couldn't, and as for his part he was not going to try. A great fellow three years older than any body else in school, and so self conceited, he thinks he knows as much more as he is older. One day he perched himself on the desk, getting off his airs, when John Hincks, a smart, running little fellow, gave him a slight push that sent him sprawling on the floor. He