Perhaps you can enlighten me ?" Mary looked earnestly in the direction indicated by her cousin, and at length replied: "You will scarcely credit my explanation: yet I assure you I perfectly understand the pantomime.

Florry, look more particularly at the picture suspended in the rain.

What does it most resemble, think you ?" "Ah, I see now--it is an image of the Virgin! But I should suppose they considered it sacrilegious to expose it to the inclemencies of the weather." "Look closely, Florry, there are praying to the Virgin, and imploring a cessation of the rain.

I once happened at Senor Gonzale's during a thunder-storm, and, to my astonishment, the family immediately hung out all the paintings of saints they possessed.

I inquired the meaning, and was told in answer, that the shower would soon pass over, as they had petitioned the images to that effect.