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 us, and Miss Greene Smythe repeated her invitation that dear Mr. Allen must come right into the reading room, where he would find all the last papers.

"Is the World there?" sez Josiah, prickin' up his ears at the idee, he wuz all tuckered out and wanted to set down and rest. "Oh, yes," sez she, "the Weekly, the Daily, and the Sunday World. I will have a couple of waiters bring those papers to you," sez she.

"Yes," sez I, "they are hefty."

Well, I see that Josiah wuz full of happiness in a quiet corner of that big readin' room overlookin' the lake, for there wuzn't hardly a soul in it at that time, and his beloved papers stacked up in front of him some like a small haystack, he wuz fairly overrunnin' with contentment. Mr. Grabhull had led the colt towards the stables, havin' persuaded it to lay off its hat, and one of the waiters wuz leadin' the old mair.

Then I turned and silently follered Miss Greene Smythe up to her room. Lots of men wuz to work hangin' draperies and puttin' flowers up on the walls, and strings of evergreens and ribbins and makin' it dretful pretty. But Miss Greene Smythe led the way through 'em all into what she called her boodore, and there she gin me a rockin' chair and I sot down, she asked me to lay off my things, but I told her I guessed I wouldn't take off my bunnet, bein' as I would have to put it on so quick, but I loosened the strings and took off my mantilly, carefully foldin' the tabs as I did so and holdin' it in my lap. She called a fashionably dressed girl with a cap on, who wuz to work on a pile of satin drapery when we went in, to come and take my mantilly. But I told her I jest as lives hold it in my lap, as I should want to put it on so soon.