She got along tolerably well until a few days ago when the doctor prescribed quinine for Mr.B.By mistake, she gave him ten grains of morphine." "What!" "Yes, my dear, she did! It seems like an immense quantity, but, as I wanted to be accurate (I always say that accuracy is a Christian duty), I asked Miss B.how many grains her father took, and she said 'Ten!' Well! the poor victim slept thirty hours, and they were so frightened that they sent for the doctor.

He said that, fortunately, no harm was done, but that it was an unpardonable piece of carelessness.

They discharged the nurse forthwith.

She ought to have been arrested and punished,--not turned loose upon a confiding community." "Yet you say she is his own sister ?" "Yes, indeed! and the family have always been perfectly devoted to her! But they have sent her to the right-about now.

It is too bad! A family row is such an unfortunate thing.