In one of these plays Jean (three years old, perhaps) was Sir Francis Bacon.

She was not dressed for the part, and did not have to say anything, but sat silent and decorous at a tiny table and was kept busy signing death-warrants.

It was a really important office, for few entered those plays and got out of them alive.
_March 26._--Mamma and Papa have been in New York for two or three days, and Miss Corey has been staying with us.

They are coming home to-day at two o'clock.
Papa has just begun to play chess, and he is very fond of it, so he has engaged to play with Mrs.Charles Warner every morning from 10 to 12, he came down to supper last night, full of this pleasant prospect, but evidently with something on his mind.

Finally he said to mamma in an appologetical tone, Susy Warner and I have a plan.
"Well" mamma said "what now, I wonder ?" Papa said that Susy Warner and he were going to name the chess after some of the old bible heroes, and then play chess on Sunday.
_April 18, '86._--Mamma and papa Clara and Daisy have gone to New York to see the "Mikado." They are coming home to-night at half past seven.
Last winter when Mr.Cable was lecturing with papa, he wrote this letter to him just before he came to visit us.
DEAR UNCLE,--That's one nice thing about me, I never bother any one, to offer me a good thing twice.