lateral descendants, in an infinitely expanding series of more than geometrical proportion.

Besides, you must consider that the progeny of a single word, the lines of descent, the branchings and offshootings, may be as various as there are various minds. I once tried half a dozen of my friends with the word Boots; and I will give you the list which each one wrote down:

In these lists the connection of the words in the minds of the several writers, is for the most part easy enough to be seen by the intelligent reader, although in some cases it would seem to be owing to something casual and incidental. The last list was given me by my bright-minded young friend Susan Garland, from whose clever and excellent mother I at the same time received the one that

stands second above. In Susan's, there is a subtle poetic association, linking the cobbler's twine with the roses that fair fingers twine; and an equally subtle link connecting the maiden's rose-bower with the Bowery street of New York.

But enough for the thoughtful reader; to the one who does not think, more would be so much more thrown away.

'FUDGE!"

I make no doubt of it.

"I don't see what it has to do here."

Very likely not.

"But what made you bring it in here ? "

The Doctor's horse.

ΦΩΝΗΣΩ ΣΥΝΕΤΟΙΣΙΝ.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

L'ENVOY, PERHAPS.-CONTAINING SOMETHING NATURAL-AND ALSO SOMETHING SUPERNATURAL, FROM WHICH NOTHING CAME EXCEPT SOME NATURAL REMARKS OF THE DOCTOR'S.

I WAS sitting in my study, going over in my thoughts the various sorts of good readers invoked by good authors, and setting down the names as they occurred to me:

Courteous,
Gentle,

Kind,

Candid,

Benevolent,

Friendly,

Intelligent,

Discriminating,

Sagacious,

Judicious,

Learned,

Thoughtful,
Wise.

I stopped, when thus far, in a musing way, making unconsciously on the paper the Doctor's favorite cypher :

Whether the forming of the monogram acted in this case as a charm or spell, I know not-it never had any such mystic power before; but

Forth from the invisible vacant space

Dimly emerged, thick clustering, half seen forms,
Hovering and peeping through the airy veil,
-Ever blank vacancy to unpurg'd eyes-

And then the veil itself dissolved away,