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es_ added on Will make the toe so comfortable, We should like to sing a song.[Illustration] The heel we reach in perfect order, And leave the measure neat; Some shoes are made which look much broader When put upon the feet. [Illustration] The _instep_ now we see again, And measure as before, One-half inch off will answer us, No less, and not much more. For if we do we are apt to find The place where shoes do pinch; Across the _ball_ we're now inclined, Still measuring by the inch.

licia and the angelic baby.What is the matter, Papa? I am dreadfully poor, my child. Have you no money at all, Papa? [Illustration: What is the matter, Papa?] None my child. Is there no way left of getting any, Papa? No way, said the King. I have tried very hard, and I have tried all ways. When she heard those last words, the Princess Alicia began to put her hand into the pocket where she kept the magic fish-bone. Papa, said she, when we have tried very hard, and tried all ways, we must have

e ricks in farmers' yards. Out-door work was abandoned, horse-troughs at road- side inns were frozen hard, no stragglers lounged about, doors were close shut, little turnpike houses had blazing fires inside, and children (even turnpike people have children, and seem to like them) rubbed the frost from the little panes of glass with their chubby arms, that their bright eyes might catch a glimpse of the solitary coach going by. I don't know when the snow begin to set in; but I know that we were

an with the accuracy of a sculptor's eye. There is onepoint, however, or, rather, two points, in respect to which our friendDonatello's abundant curls will not permit us to say whether the likenessis carried into minute detail.And the sculptor directed the attention of the party to the ears of thebeautiful statue which they were contemplating. But we must do more than merely refer to this exquisite work of art; itmust be described, however inadequate may be the effort to express itsmagic

s plants of the genus Colchicum, such as the autumncrocus. The dried ripe seeds or corms (short thick solid food-storingunderground stem) of the autumn crocus which yield colchicine.collodionHighly flammable, colorless or yellowish syrupy solution of pyroxylin,ether, and alcohol, used as an adhesive to close small wounds and holdsurgical dressings, in topical medications, and for making photographicplates. colocynth (bitter apple)Old World vine (Citrullus colocynthis) bearing yellowish,

of the children a conviction of the truth of what they say; while, on theother hand, those who, in theory at least, occupy the position thatthe direct falsifying of one's word is never justifiable, act at adisadvantage in attempting this method. For although, in practice, they areoften inclined to make an exception to their principles in regard to truthin the case of what is said to young children, they can not, after all,tell children what they know to be not true with that bold and