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KNICKERBOCKER SUIT FOR BOY.

Good heavens! Had the widow gone mad! She took off her bonnet and veil, unfastened her cloak, unhooked her crinoline and skirts, and stepped out—wonder of wonders! the bridegroom, George Lyon!

Squire Lemon gave one gasping cry, no more he was too far gone. He sat staring like a man who has taken leave of his senses.

"It was I all the time," said Mr. Lyon, struggling with a laugh. "I was the widow George Seaton Lyon. I never saw a ghost, and I never expect to. Try to pardon me, Squire Lemon, when I am gone. All's fair in love, you know."

Mr. and Mrs. Lyon went off to Boston ; and people wondered why, after being so very cordial at the wedding- breakfast, the squire refused to speak to his daughter, or her husband, for ever so long after. But he came round in time, as these flinty- parents mostly do, and forgave them handsomely, and brought them back to Lemonville, to live happy forever after.

As for the stately widow Seaton, nothing was ever seen of her since; and the popular belief in Lemonville is, that that house is certainly haunted, and that the crafty, plotting widow was scared away by the GHOST OF LEMON LANE.

KNICKERBOCKER

SUIT FOR BOY.

BY EMILY H. MAY.

WE give here an engraving of a pretty Knickerbocker Suit for a boy, with a diagram on the next page, so that the suit can be made at home. The material should be good, thick woolen cloth. The suit is in six pieces, as will be seen by referring to the diagram: viz.,