But when it came to the inscription we could only think of the two words murmured to him by Miss Pinkey, which we always believe effected his conversion: "GOOD Dog!" A MOTHER OF FIVE She was a mother--and a rather exemplary one--of five children, although her own age was barely nine.

Two of these children were twins, and she generally alluded to them as "Mr.Amplach's children," referring to an exceedingly respectable gentleman in the next settlement who, I have reason to believe, had never set eyes on her or them.

The twins were quite naturally alike--having been in a previous state of existence two ninepins--and were still somewhat vague and inchoate below their low shoulders in their long clothes, but were also firm and globular about the head, and there were not wanting those who professed to see in this an unmistakable resemblance to their reputed father.

The other children were dolls of different ages, sex, and condition, but the twins may be said to have been distinctly her own conception.

Yet such was her admirable and impartial maternity that she never made any difference between them.