The Other Girls

ving about in her mothe

ittle basket-ph?ton, a story,

so much about aims and ways and principles, and the drift of a household life, which was one of the busy little currents in the world that help to make up its great uni

lomacy had

like Sylvie to have. It is getting to be alm

re;" but his wife passed over all that, and call

Muchmore

I have read half a dozen as funny combinations in a single advertising

heard of, to call his son Agreen, or because the old Puritan name had been in the family, or with a like original inspiration of luck and thrift to that which influenced the later christening, if you can call it such; and now, therefore, resulted Increase Muchmore Argenter. The father hung, as it were, a charm around his son's neck, as Catholics do, giving saints' names to their children. But young Increase found it, in his earlier years, rather of the nature of a millstone. It w

nter always put that in. It was the nut

the house the year round; it is such a bother driving about a ten-mile circuit after one in a hurry;" and now,-"Sylvie ought to have a little vehicle of her own, she is so far away from all

itions of Mrs. Argenter's. His own plans evolved gradually; he came to them by imperceptible steps of mental process, or outward constraint; Mrs. Argenter's "jumped" at him, took him at unawares, and by sudden impinging upon solid shield of permanent

ded ruinous shoddy nonsense. Makes little fools of them all. Sylvie's got airs e

ys sustained and acted up to, had really helped and strengthened Mrs. Argenter in very much of her established amiability. We don't know, always, where our

e sees them enjoyed all around her, in her own circle. But it's the convenience; and then, it's a real means of

ust hit it there. But it isn't a

"Mrs. A.;" and I am very much afraid, I was going to say, that he knew it; but of course he did when she ha

n, Mr. Argenter," she said

he had come up with his own carriage at the post-office in the village, whither he had walked over for exercise and the evening papers. Sylvie had Aggie Townsend with her, and she put her head out at the window on one side just as

ill soon outgrow all that. If you want to make her a real lady, ther

tly and shortly. "If she wants to 'show a kindness,' and take 'other' girls to ride,

hat this ended-or had be

to meet and leave them at the trains. Then she began again, and asked for a pony-chaise for herself. To "save the cost of it in Michael's time, and the wear and tear of the heavy carriages. Those little sunset drives would be such a pleasure to her, just when Michael had to be

own bread for her father's tea. It was a little unspoken, politic understanding between Sylvie and her mother, that some small, acceptable errand like this was to be accomplished whenever the former had the ba

d not thought of, and that when it happened, she felt with some dismay m

her's horses with his own Red Squirrel, to make out the team; for which, if he should come to any grief, R

d balance, that he was by this time becoming scarcely more reliable in the shafts. Rod found he had his hands full. He found this out, however, only just in time to realize it, as they were suddenly relieved and emptied of their charge; for, before his call and the touch of his long whip could bring back Red Squirrel into line at this turn, he had sprung so far to the left as to bring Duke and the

r up, and Rodney Sherrett, picking himself out of the dust with a shake and a stamp, found his own bones unbroken, and hurried over

h feeling, also, in a great scrape,-this was an odd and startling partnership. Sylvie was pale; Rod was sorry; both were very much demolished as to dress: Sylvie's hat had got a queer crush, and a tip that was never intended over her eyes; Rodney's was

took the latter out of the shafts and led him to a post to fasten him, and then proceeded together, as

say if Duke don't come out of it comfortable, is something I'd rather not look ahead to. I must go on and see. I'll be back again, and if the

etter step right in and come up-stairs." The village boys were crowding round,-all those who had not been in time to run after the "smash,"-and Sylvie gladly withdrew to the offered