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 it seems some as if I fried him, but I won't be certain. But even this immense menagerie didn't seem to fill 'em with the joy it ort, but towards night they begun to brighten up some. I see their two curly heads clost together, the light and the dark, talkin' over some project big to them, and then they'd look at Josiah and me dretful meanin' and nod their heads to each other in a knowin' way, their little faces all lighted up agin.

And they seemed to be in full and frequent communication with our hired man, and then the two little heads, the dark lustrous one with threads of gold runnin' through the dark curls, and the light flaxen one with threads of mornin' sunshine wove into the long flaxen waves, these heads would nestle clost together agin as if in deep thought and endeavor.

Well, the mornin' of Saint Valentine's day wuz bright and sunshiny, the long rays of gold light crept into our room through the white curtain edged with lace of my own knittin', and through them same curtains I could see the great masses of warm light in the east like a pink and gold carpet spread out for the sun to walk up into the day on as he come up to light the world.

I wuz jest layin' and thinkin' how beautiful and glorious it all wuz, and also with one corner of my mind wonderin' when Josiah laid out to git up, and whether he had got enough kindlin' wood the night before, when I heard two little taps at the bedroom door and Josiah waked up. And before we could even ask who wuz there, in come Jack and little Delight in their long white night-*dresses. Jack slept upstairs in the room with the hired man, and Delight slept in a little room offen ours. But there them two beautiful little creeters stood right in the rays of mornin' light, hand in hand, with faces as