This Mr.Garie writes me that he is coming to the North to settle, and desires me to procure them a house; and he says also that he has so far presumed upon an early acquaintance of his wife with Mrs.Ellis as to request that she will attend to the furnishing of it.

You are to purchase all that is necessary to make them comfortable, and I am to foot the bills." "What, you don't mean Emily Winston's husband ?" said the astonished Mrs.
Ellis.
"I can't say whose husband it is, but from Winston's letter," replied Mr.
Walters, "I suppose he is the person alluded to." "That is news," continued Mrs.Ellis.

"Only think, she was a little mite of a thing when I first knew her, and now she is a woman and the mother of two children.

How time does fly.

I must be getting quite old," concluded she, with a sigh.
"Nonsense, Ellen," remarked Mr.Ellis, "you look surprisingly young, you are quite a girl yet.