"I see to the house at home almost entirely; mother and Esther are so much engaged in sewing, that they are glad enough to leave it in my hands, and I'd much rather do that than sew." "I hope," said Mrs.Garie, "that your mother will permit you to remain with us until we get entirely settled." "I know she will," confidently replied Caddy.

"She will be up here in the morning.

She will know you have arrived by my not having gone home this evening." The children had now fallen asleep with their heads in close proximity to their plates, and Mrs.Garie declared that she felt very much fatigued and slightly indisposed, and thought the sooner she retired the better it would be for her.

She accordingly went up to the room, which she had already seen and greatly admired, and was soon in the land of dreams.
As is always the case on such occasions, the children's night-dresses could not be found.

Clarence was put to bed in one of his father's shirts, in which he was almost lost, and little Em was temporarily accommodated with a calico short gown of Caddy's, and, in default of a nightcap, had her head tied up in a Madras handkerchief, which gave her, when her back was turned, very much the air of an old Creole who had been by some mysterious means deprived of her due growth.
The next morning Mrs.Garie was so much indisposed at to be unable to rise, and took her breakfast in bed.