MRS.

TOLBRIDGE'S CALLERS The next day was a very fine one, and as the roads were now good, and the air mild, Miss Panney thought it was quite time that she should begin to go about and see her friends without depending on the vehicles of other people, so she ordered her little phaeton and her old roan mare, and drove herself to Thorbury to see Mrs.Tolbridge.
"The doctor tells me," said that good lady, "that you take great interest in those young people at Cobhurst." "Indeed I do," said Miss Panney, sitting up as straight in her easy chair as if it had been a wooden bench with no back; "I have been thinking about him all the morning.

He ought to be married." Mrs.Tolbridge laughed.
"Dear me, Miss Panney," said she, "it is too soon to begin thinking of a wife for the poor fellow.

He has not had time to feel himself at home." "My motto is that it is never too soon to begin, but we won't talk about that.

Kitty, you are the worst matchmaker I ever saw." "I think I made a pretty good match for myself," said the other.
"No, you didn't.