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1', M'ipi‘ ERR. TH E HEIRESS. Mrs. Farquhar was thirty years younger than her husband. The fact, originally a pleasure to him, became afterwards an ofieiice, and he quarrelled with her for no better reason. At least, so said Mr. Nevill, his cousin ; and so said every one at all acquainted with the harmless lady. Old John Farqnhar died at seventy-six, and left his widow not one penny of money. And her son, young Johnâ€"as good a boy as ever was seen, a' smart young soldier, who had never offended his father 5111a year ago, and then only by over-warm in- tercession for his motherâ€"found himself out down to a pittance of two hundred a year. Vi hile, on the other hand, Mr. Nevill’s daughter, little Jessica, whom no one knew, and who was totally insignifi- cant, became the possessor of a house, and a park, and a hundred thousand pounds. It was scandalous. ' Of course gentle Mrs. Farquhar cried herself ill, and said it was all her fault; and of course young John was aghast, and be- lieved himself on the workhouse threshold. j But Mr. Nevill took the matter more to heart than did either, and his very hair stood on end with dismay ; for he was an extremely high-souled gentleman, horrified to think a member of his household should pro- fit by such monstrous injustice. Jessica at this time was eighteen, pretty, and the apple of her father’s eye ; rather a clever little person, who, having left school,want- ed now to go to college. But she did not understand money matters, and became, under the present ciscumstances,jlist a little annoying to her papa. For her remarks were perfunctory and childish ; and one moment she was building wit}. her wealth some extravagant castle in Spain, and the next_clamoring to pack it all up in a parcel, and send it oli‘ by post to her cousin John. Clearly, however, there was but 'one comfortable solution of the difficulty ; the heiress must marry John Farquhar, and so restore to him his inheri- tance. This project was the simultaneous invention of both Mr. Nevill and the widow. It was propoundcd to John, who, after a little hesitation, and having no fancy for the workhouse, agreed. Provisionally that is : in Jessica’s interest he inserted in the treaty a saving clause. “If,” he wrote, “your daughter is perfectly willing; at present, and when we shall have become acquainted.” “Very proper,” commented Mr. Nevill; “could not be more proper. Every word John says is admirable. You are to be congratulated on your husband, Jessica. Sit down, my dear, and write him a cordial response.” ’ J essica obediently took a pen and wrote “My dear Cousin,” with a full stop after it- CHAPTER. I. 'l “ What, my love, is the matter?” inquir- ed her father. ~ Jessica threw down the pen and began to cry. Then it came out. “ I don’t want to marry John Farquhar,” sobbed Jessica. Mr. Nevill bit his lip impatiently de- manded reasons, and Jessica found it supremely hard to make them intelligible. " I don’t want to marry till I’m at least tw‘enty-ei ht papa. I shouldn’t mind if I were an o d maid. I want to go to Girton, papa ; and to beâ€"to be cultured. I mean, I want to be superior.” You must try to express yourself more clearly,” said Mr; Nevill. “ Papa, ” said Jessica, who till this moment had imprisoned her aspirations in her breast, and who though she loved her father dearly, was not much i in the habit of talking to himâ€"“papa,l Lady Sterne was married at my ago, i and now she is so stout, and has so . much to do, and she always seems so tired of her husband, and so tired of babies, and every one thinks her so stupid.” 3 “You have not yet made your meaning , clear, Jessica,” said Mr. Nevill. “ I should much rather be like dear Miss Snow, who is always so nicely dressed, and, who reads so much, and writes for the i Sunday at Home, papa. I mean, what is the good of marrying at all ?” cried Jessica. l “And if ever I do get married, I want to marry aâ€"personâ€"whom I esteem andâ€" worship. ” Here Jessica colored. Mr. Nevill explained that she was at full liberty to worship John Farquhar, but that for his money ; and then he advised her to go on with her letter. Jessica tried again. “ But John Far- quliar seems quite an ordinary person,papa, and I don’t suppose I shall find it the least possible to esteem and to worship him.” “ Then you had better love him,” said Mr. Nevill drylyâ€"“that will do as well.’ Jessica grew very pink. “Papa, I could only esteem and worship andâ€"and” -â€"â€"here * she blushed furiouslyâ€"-“ love any one who was quite my ideal in every single way.” Mr. Nevill put on his spectacles and star- e'd. “ Jessica, are you thinking of Mr. , Hobson ‘2” (Mr. Hobson, the curate, had made a sud- den prosposal for Jessica two months ago, and had been declined with a few tears.) “ Papa, you know I hate Mr. Hobson.” “I know nothing of the sort,” said her father testily. “Are you thinklng of Sir Edgar Lee?” “ Papa, Sir Edgarhas never so much as asked me, and I hate him worse eVen than . Mr. Hobson.” , “Of whom are you thinking ‘2” “ I am not thinking of anyone.” “ lxcuse me, my dear. You called him your ‘ideal,’ I think.” “ He isn’t any one,”’murn1ured Jessica. “ Oh, a figment of fancy ‘2 Then I can’t allow him‘ to be a rival to John. A fancy is of no importance.” “ Oh, papa, it is i it is ! And, besides, you want to upset my whole life. I am not one of those girls who are always talking and imagining about ‘falling in love.’ I think all that is such nonsense. I want to go to Girton as Flora Williams did, and learn a great, great deal, andâ€"and be sen- sible. Oh, I can’t explain,” ended poor Jessica, in despair. I“ My dear," said M r. Nevill, "falling in love is not nonsense. It is very serious ; especially to women, who arejudgcd chiefly by the way they do it. They teach nothing about it at Girion, I think '2 That is my chief xeison for not sending you there. But ll this is irrelevant. You need not study the question in the abstract. You are to marry your cousin John, and the sooner ‘ with mingled feelings of pleasure and ap- .the most complicated star-like figures have ,of this class, but each of the these needles she must not keep him ten years waiting \And‘05 are Practically identicul' BRITISH DEFENOES UNMASKED- The Plans of Four Important Anglo. Indian Ports Taken by a French Spy. Advices just received from Rangoon, British Burmah, show that the British Government defences at Aden, Kurrachi, Bombay, and Rangoon are probably as well known now in Paris as they are at the army headquarters in London. The plans of these most important defences of the Indian Empire were secured by a French- man, who, under a German name, obtained employment as an engineer in the British India service. Last September he obtained leave of absence at Rangoon, but When he failed to return an investigation was made, which revealed his treachery. The dis- closure created great excitement in Ran- goon and Bombay, and there was much cabling between those cities and the Home Office in London, but it was a case of lock- ingfithe stable door after the steed was stolen. you fall in love with him the better. Write your letter, my love.” Jessica could not make her father under- stand that he was trampling on the finest sprouts ofher delicate soul. She submitted ; and in the summer John Farqnhar was to come to Nevill Lodge to make his betrothed bride’s acquaint- ance. Now, it must be confessed, the young man did not altogether like the part he was playing in this affair, for he felt himself turned into an object of com- passion, 'the role least suited to an Eng- lishman ; and, moreover, the male animal relinquishes With a had grace his privilege of wooing. Still, he hoped for the best, having heard that Jessica was pretty ; and he was enamored of getting his position re- stored and his few debts paid; besides which, he wanted to please his mother and to make her comfortable. For John was Iomantically devoted to his mother, and she was in ill health, and altogether unfit to cope with poverty and disappointtment. The wedding was fixed for the auumn, and the cousins were to be introduced in the summer. Just now it was spring. And, alas !â€" In the spring ayoung man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. ~ John Farquhar, the engaged man, was not sufficiently alive to this springtime danger in which he stood. (To us CONTINUED.) A SH“ “’ELAKE. Tlic Ci-ystulliscd “'uch' 55 Really Blue, Not ' ‘Vlillc. The first snow of winter is always hailed the fortification of these four Indian ports was known as \Vald. His real name was De Boulanger, and he came of a prominent family in Marseilles. He was educated for the army, and when still under age served in Pondicherry, but a quarrel over a woman forced him to leave the colony. He was transferred to Algiers, but soon tiring of this hard life, he came back to India and obtained a positionas corresponding clerk in at Bombay commercial house. \Vhile there he fell in with some British officers, and, as he went by the name of Wald and claimed to be a. German, he was induced to enlist in the Royal Artillery at Cnlaba, Bombay. This was six years ago. He was assigned as gunner at Aden, and it was noted then that he spent much time in his room, making drawings and notes, all of the latter being in French. He was soon transferred to Kurrachi, then to Bombay, and finally to Monkey Point, Rangoon. He was noted at each place for his close atten- tion to work and his studious habits. At Kurraclii he gained a place on the stuff and became cliicf clerk, which gave him unlim- ited opportunities for securing information about the defences. He spoke English, French, German, and Italian, and his com- mand of Hindustani and Burmese was per- fect. His labors in his room were supposed to be supplementary to his regular work and no one suspected that he was a spy in the service of France. His disappearance coincided with the departure of Mme. Nâ€"â€"â€", a French woman of Rangoon, and it is thought the couple left together. At Bombay he bought two tickets for Paris, but he had already reach- ed the French capital before suspicion was aroused, as he had cunningly applied for three weeks’ furlough. MW Europe’s Armies. International peace is not the only thing threatened by the armaments of Europe. Each of the great Continental powers has its own festering social disorder, to which its standing army is a constant irritant. War taxes and enforced military service are nursing internal discontent which may impel war before it has really been provoked. Italy is in that situation. The tremendous strain of supporting her army must reach the breaking point if it is not soon eased. That country may choose the horrors of war as a means of preventing the miseries of revolution. Germany, Austria-Hungary, and France are able to maintain their huge military establishments, but at a cost not entirely measured by the vast financial out- lay. Their armies havc brought into exis- tence SVViLI‘mS of Socialists and large num- bers of those criminal malcontents, the Anarchists. The full force of the reaction of the armed peace upon society in the countries maintaining that paradoxical attitude is not to be gauged by the visible signs of discontent. It is only the more indiscreet that in such countries as Germany express their spirit of revolt against the military taxes and service. In all those countries, however, Socialism is gaining a strong foothold, and political leaders find it necessary to bargain with it in order to carry on government or effective opposi- tion. ~ If the twelve million able-bodied men composing the armies of Europe should emi- grate, their loss would be a great benefit to the countries on whose produce they are now preying. If they should leave the camp and return to the fields and workshops of their own countries,they would probably bring down the level of wages appreciably, but by their stimulus to production they would also bring down prices, and thus bal- ance the tendency of lower wages to lower the standard of living. Thcn'the produc- tion of wealth which had been unproduc- tivcly consumed by the standing armies would be available as capital to employ the labor released by the breaking up of the armies, New enterprises would be started. and though over-production might result, that condition would be incomparably bet- ter than the state of things subsisting at present. Further, emigration still affords a safety-valve for superfluous labour. Just now the military requirmcnts of Germany incline’her to discourage emigration, and at the same time are an impulse to it. There are other motives besides the desire to es- cape military burdens and military service that urge emigration. Artisans and labour- ers can get better wages inAmerica or South Africa than they can at home, for though the army takes away many labourers from industry,it also takes away much capital,so that there is a smaller fund to be divided among the fewer workers. preliension. The youngsters welcome it with unalloyed delight, but their elders realize thatit is but she harbinger of many and more severe storms which will bring misery to some and discomfort to all. But even these cannot but admire the beauty of the little crystals of water as they fall so softly and gently from the skies. Even in the mass its pure whiteness and its soft feathery character give snow a charm peculiarly its own,which has been celebrat- ed in proverb and poem in all ages of man- kind. It came rather as a shock to learn, as the realistic painters showed and the philosophers corroborated, that the snow was not white, but blue ; a faint and deli- cate blue it is true, but one well marked in deep shadows and exactly that of water when viewed in large masses. Pure water in small bulk is almost perfectly transpar- rent, but in large masses gives a. distinctly blue tint to white objects when seen through it. So the whiteness of the snow, due to interference of the light by the reflection and refraction of the innumerable facets of minute crystals, is found to be tinged with blue when these interferences are sufficient- ly numerous. For snow is nothing more than crystal- lized water, and its beauty in mass is sur- passed by the beauty ofsomc of the individ- ual crystals ‘which catch on one’s coat- slceve or fall on the ground, when examined closely by the eye or, still better, when looked at through a magnifying glass. Multitudes of forms of all degrees of com- plexity from the slender, straight needle to been drawn and described, but in spite 0'} this great diversity they are all absolutely uniform in their primary design, that of the hexagonal prism. The ordinary form is that of six straight needles of the ice radiating from a common center, and the straight needles occasionally seen are re- garded as broken or incomplete specimens is capable of throwing out other needle- like branches, always at symmetrical dis. tances and always at an angle of 6') or 120 degrees. Occasionally little plates are seen, but these also are invariably 6«sid ed planes the angles of which are still 120 degrees. What is the meaning of this rigid adher- ence to, a certain geometrical form? Evie dently the result is the action of physical force on the individual molecules which make up the crystals, and eVidently also this force is either all-pervading or else inherent in the molecules themselves, for the crystals figured by Arctic explorers and those found in the mountains of the There is scarcely a possibility of a doubt that the forco, whatever it is, which determines the form of crystals is inherent in the mole- cules of which the crystal is composed,and, perhaps, represents the position of' the atoms in the molecules themselves. The theory of crystallization has been so elabor- ately worked out that it is second only to those of mathematics and chemistry itself in exactness. So accurate is it that the crystalline form of a substance unknown in other than a liquid or a gaseous state, and even that of a substance entirely unknown, but whose existence is possible, can be pre- dicted with accuracy. This is the last and greatest test of a scientific theory. To most minds it is a complete proof of the correctness of that theory; Crystallized water assumes the form of a hexagonal prism, not from chance, but be- cause it is compelled to assume that form on account of its molecular arrangement, due to the forms which the atoms them- selves assume within the molecule or rather to the restrictions of their several ranges of movement through their mutual attractions. This is the basis of the present theory of the formation of crystals, and it will be seen that given the character and number of the atoms and their arrangement in a molecule it is perfectly posmble to predict the range of their movement in a molecule and thence the probable character of a crystal which would be built up of many molecules. It is needless to say that it is unnecessary to carry the investigation of any compound back to the atoms, and that the fact of a certain number and character of atoms having been established in the molecules of any substance, it is possible at once to predicate the arrangement they would assume and the crystalline form the molecules would take. The little crystals which make up the snow are, therefore, the resultant of phys- ical and chemical forces of the universe and each represents in its perfect form the unalterable character of the laws of nature, which regulatealike the shape of thegreatest globe of the earth and the tiny feathery flake which falls on a coat sleeve on a dark winter day. l I ..._._ __._..._¢'_.â€" Afghan Postage Stamps- The collectors of stamps may like to know that Ameer Abdur Rahman has had three issues of stamps. When he first came to the throne he had dies struck for two post- age stamps, both round in shape and ofa dull red color. One of these was valued at one abasi, or four annas, and the other two abasis; the former was used on letters weigh- ing one miskal, or half the weight of a Cab- uli rupee. The latter carried a letter up to two miskals. The inscription on these stamps is “Dams Sultaneh Cabul” on the margin, and the price is in the middle. Three years ago a small black oblong stamp about an inch long, valucd at one abasi, was issued. This was merely inscribed “Masai Kagaz Dak Khana Dowlat-i-Afghanistan ti miskal ck abasi.” This has now been superseded by a much larger red oblong stamp, which bears the same words, but has in addition' a mosque and two flags. The remains of a Roman watergate have been unearthed at Nimes. There are two openings of 13 feet span. Where Law is Not Respected- Quitc recently two freight trains on the Boston and Maine Railway were stopped by bands of tramps, who broke open the seals of some of the cars and attempted to rifle tlicm. Before they had accomplished their purpose in either case the arrival of another train reinforced the captured train hands sufficiently to enable them to make a successful fight against the tramps, who were finally routed. One of the train hands was badly wounded. The despatches said that none of the tramps had been arrested, and they are quite silent as to any measures being taken by the officers of the law. The despatch recounting the second attempt states that the company has armed the trainmen of all outgoing trains on the section of the road on'which the attempted robberies were made. It is a very remark- able fact that in the United States more than any other European or American nation the defence of life and property and the punishment of crime is undertaken, The man who secured accurate plans of [withlittle proteston the part ofthe properly constituted authorities and powers, by the individuals, companies or mobs who are in- terested or who interest themselves. In many Western States mining camps are ap. parently expected to administer justice for themselves, with little assistance from any legal or responsible authority. In the great manufacturing and mining Middle and Southern States the great industrial com- panies depend more for defence of their property upon hired forces than upon the police or militia. Even the railway compan- ies of the Northern States do not despise the aid of Pinkerton’s forces. In the South- ern States the white people take all the punishment for certain crimes on the part of negrocs entirely from under the hand of law and authority,.and summarily execute justice orinjustice, as it may happen. It is certain that the United States needs to give more attention to the properly consti- tuted administration of law and justice. Just now there is a great deal more atten- tion given by congresses and legislatures and the public generally to the work of enabling people to make money easily and rapidly than to the lawful security of either life or property. The condition of things is a disgrace to civilization and, what is worse, a discouragement and a hindrance to progress throughout the world. â€"â€"â€".â€" The Base of Irish Villages- It is the wholsale dry-rotting of the boys growing up in the Irish towns and Villages, merely through contact with this ever-swelling army of loafers and vagabonds, which makes one ask, with a sinking heart, what hope there is of the new generation. We are still raising many good boys, in spite of this contaminated environmentâ€" stcady, pure-minded, ambitious, diligent lads, who are not shamed to be regular at mass, and at their studies or work, and at their beds in goodtime. It is our curse that these exceptions will not remain in their maturity to help us combat the nation- all evil. They will sail off for America or the Antipodes, weakening steadily the minority which strives to better matters. As things go now, this always-shrinking minority cannot much longer keep up with a decent show of resistance. It must be overwhelmed by weight of numbers. It is asignificant fact that the Irish- man returned from America or Australia is one of the worst elements in this mis- chievous and dangerous class. I suppose this is logical enough ;~ if he had not had the seeds of worthlessness in him, he would have taken root in the soil of a new conti- ncnt, and remained there. I could name from personal acquaintance a dozen small towns and villages where the home-coming of a single sophisticated loafer or ruffian from foreign parts has wrought the whole difference between a tolerably quiet and well-ordered community and a place visibly going, with loud turbulence and vicious abandon, straight to the devil. It is a part of the irony of our fate that this returned blatherskite or miscreant should take a wild and absorbing interest in local politics. If he has learned nothing good abroad, he has at least acquired a shrewd acquaintance with the tricks and machinery of the “caucus,” and he knows how to put himself on the Town Council of Galway, or make himself a poor law guard- ian in a smaller place, in the teeth of all the soberer elements of the electorate. There is a certain vigour and unholy activ- ity about the fellow, a kind of brass imi- tation of the golden resourcefulness he has seen abroad, which make him the natural ring-leader of the slower and more timid stay-at-home loafers, and he gathers them up and propels them along as a force for confusion, waste, and wrong which no one knows how to stand up against.â€"[The Fortnightly Review. n..."â€" â€" Both Religions Asiatic- In their origin, Christianity and Islam are both Asiatic, both Semitic, and Jerusalem is but a few hundred miles from Mecca. In regard to the number of their adherents, both have steadily increased from the be- ginning to the present day. years, Christianity numbers 400,000,000, and Islam, after 1,300 years, 200,000,000: but Mohammedanism has been practically confined to Asia and Africa, while Christi- anity has been the religion of Europe and over all the Turkey. Mohammedanism has been identified with a stationary civilization, and Christianity with a progressive one. There was a. time, from the eighth century to the thirteenth, when science and philosophy flourished at Bagdad and Cordova under Moslcm rule, while darkness reigned in Europe. But ltenan has shown that this brilliant period was neither Arabic nor Mohammedan in its spirit or origin, and, although his state- ments may admit ofj some modification, it is certain that, however brilliant while it lasted, this period has left no trace in the Moslem faith, unless it be in the philo- sophical heels of Mohammedan law, while Christianity has led the way in the progress of modern civilization. Both of these are positive religions. Each claims to rest upon a divine revelation which is in its nature final and unchangeable; yet the one is stationary and the other pro- gressive. The one is based upon what it believes to be divine commands, and the other upon divine principlesâ€"just the dif- ference that there is between the law of Sinai and the law of love, the ten command- ments and the two. The ten are spec1fic and unchangeablc ; the two admit of ever new and progressive application. â€"[The Contemporary Review. world except China and After 1,900 the New World, and politically it rules now rue runssr nxrixr mums. Hale Girafl‘cs Have Reached the “eight of Eighteen Feet. Compared with their extinct allies of earlier periods of the earth’s history, it may be laid down as a general rule that the large animals of the present day are decidedly in ferior in point of size. During the later por- tion of the territorial period, for instance, before the incoming of the glacial epoch when mammals appear to have attained their maximum development, there lived elephants alongside of which ordinary in- dividuals of the existing species would have looked almost dwarfs, while the cave bear- and the cave hyena attained considerably larger dimensions than their living represen- tatives, and some of the sable-toothed tigers must have been considerably larger than the biggest African lion or Bengal lion. Again, the remains of red deer, bison, and wild oxen disinterred from the caverns and other sur- ficial ' deposits of this country indicate animals far SUPERIOR IN SIZE to their degenerate descendants of the present day, while some of the ex- tinct pigs from the Siwalik hills of northern India might be compared in stature to a tapir rather than to an ordinary wild boar. The same story is told of reptiles, the giant tortoise of the Slivalik hills, in spite of its dimensions having been considerably exag- gerated, greatly exceeding insists the larg- est living giant tortoises of either the Mascarene or the Galapagos Islands. The latter rocks have also yielded the remains ofa long-snouted crocodile, allied to the gavial of the Ganges, which probably measured from fifty to sixty feet in length, Whereas it is very doubtful if any existing member of the order exceeds half the small- er of these dimensions. If, morever, we took into account totally extinct types, such. as the megatheres and mylodons of South America, and contrasting them with their nearest living alliesâ€"in this instance the sloths and anteatersâ€"the discrepancy in size would be still more marked, but such a comparison would scarcely be analogous to the above. To every rule there is, however, an ex- ception, and there are a few groups of liv- ing large mammals whose existing members appear never to have been surpassed in size by their fossil relatives. Foremost among these are the whales, which now appear to include the largest members of the order which have ever existed. The so-called white, or square-mouthed rhinoceros of South Africa seems also to be fully equal in size to any of its extinct ancestors: and the same is certainly true of the giraffe, which may even exceed all its predecessors in this respect. Whether, however, THE FOSSIL GIRAFFES, of which more anon, were or were not the equals in height of the largest individuals of the living species, there is no question but that the latter is by far the tallest of all living mammals, and that it was only riv- alled in this respect among extinct forms by its aforesaid ancestors. Moreover, if we exclude creatures like some of the gi- gantic dinosaurian reptiles of the secondary epoch, which, so to speak, gained an unfair advantage as regards height by sitting‘pn their hind legs in a kangaroo-like manner;FT and limit our comparison to such as walk‘fl. on all four feet in the good old-fashioned way, we shall find that girafi‘es are not only the tallest mammals, but likewise the tall- est of all animals that have ever existed. As regards the height attained by the male of the tallest of quadrupeds, there is, unfortunately, a lack of accurate information and since itis probable that the majority of those now living are inferior in size to the largest inidvtduals which existed when the species was far more numerous than at pres- ent, it is to be feared that this deficiency in our knowledge is not very likely to be. remedied. By some writers the heightof the male giraffe is given at sixteen feet,and that of the female at fourteen feet, but this is certainly below the reality. Fonin- stance, Mr. H.A. Bryden states that a fem- ale he shot in Southern Africa measured seventeen feet to the summits of the horns. From the evidences of a very large though badly preserved specimen in the Natural History Museum it may, however, be in- ferred that fine males certainly reach the imposing height of eighteen feet. Her First- A woman got into a streetcar in Toronto on a recent Saturday afternoon. She was carrying a sweet-faced baby, which was not more than six months old. The car was detained at the corner where the woman got on, and she shifted round nervously in her seat for a moment and then began to toss the baby about. Here is a true description of what she did with that child while the car was going 250 yards : Held it up on one knee for thirty seconds. Then shifted it to the other knee. Pulled it up against her and hugged it twice. Tossed it on her left shoulder and then lifted it to her right shoulder. Held it up to the window and then stood it up on her lap. Made a cradle out of her arms and jump- ed it up and down six times. Placed it on her left knee. on her right knee. Laid it on its stomach in her lap. Hugged. it to her bosom and patted it seven times. Held it up to the tram window again, then pulled it over her left shoulder, shifted it to her right shoulder, and wound it up by dumping it into her lap. Tossed it into the air a dozen times and hugged it four or five times. Laid it on its back in her lap and then turned it to lay on its stomach. Patted it for a minute and bummed “ Hush-a-bye, Baby,” although the child wasn’t making a sound. Put it on her knee and juggled her knee up and down, shook it in front of her, hold- ing it out at arm’s length, and then hugged it ecs-tatically three times. Held it up to the window for the third, time, and then, when the conductor came after her fare, laid it in a lump on the scat beside her. ‘ Patted it some more, jogged it some more, tossed it some more, and flopped it down on its stomach again. Held it out at arm’s length, and gazed at it rapturously. Talked gibberish to it, and hugged it some more. And all this while the car was going 250 yards. . But, then, it wasâ€"her first! Then put it ,. W...,..........-...._._- ,....... In”... n... a“... u..-.a‘nfdfl ' ,n 7:. 5,-1.5: Ire-x32!" -429» . "fa; â€" '7‘ ~‘Wâ€" .. Wu .