Indeed, I have not been to the Bank at all yet, for of course it is of no use to go after banking hours.' "'An' I believe, too,' said her brother in his heavy voice, 'that she has kept out my team of little oxen.

Otherwise it would be here now.' "I couldn't stand any more of this an' ran into our room where my husband was.

When I told him what had happened, he was real sorry.
"'I didn't know you thought of going out,' he said, 'or I would have told you all about it.

An' now sit down an' quiet yourself, an' I'll tell you jus' how things is.' So down we sits, an' says he, jus' as carm as a summer cloud, 'My dear, this is a lunertic asylum.

Now, don't jump,' he says; 'I didn't bring you here, because I thought you was crazy, but because I wanted you to see what kind of people they was who imagined themselves earls and earl-esses, an' all that sort o' thing, an' to have an idea how the thing worked after you'd been doing it a good while an' had got used to it.