he has not any doll."

"Very well, dear," answered Mrs. Brown.

But when they turned to find her, she was not with the others.

"Where can she be?" exclaimed Ethel.

And then began the search. Tea was delayed and they hunted the house
over for her. Finally Mrs. Brown went out on a side porch seldom used,
and there she found the little girl.

The child had brought a cushion to sit on, and clasped tightly in her
arms were three of Ethel's dolls. Mrs. Brown persuaded her to come in
with the promise that she might keep the dolls.

So Ethel rang the bell, and they all marched in to tea again, with
Nellie Day leading the line, holding her three dollies.

"Mamma," said Ethel, as the little girls were going home, "may I give
Nellie Day the dolls? I have so many and she has not one."

"Yes indeed," replied Mrs. Brown, as she kissed her little daughter. "I am
sure it will make her very happy."

And Nellie Day went home that night, the happiest little girl in the
town.

TOWSER TALKS.

I am not a big dog and I don't know very much, but I know more than I
used to. The reason why I know more than I used to is because I asked
Carlo some questions once. I asked him what made him so gaunt and thin
and why he had such an enquiring expression on his face and such a hump
on the top of his head. He didn't answer right away, and--I noticed the
enquiring expression vanished. He looked quite decided. Then something
happened,--I don't know exactly what, but Mary, the cook, told the
butler that it made her dizzy just to look on. And then Carlo said:--

"One reason why I am gaunt and thin is because I am not a little
up-start of a pug,--of no earthly use under Heaven, and nothing to do
but waddle around and accumulate fat.

"The reason I have an enquiring expression on my face is because I am
ever on the outlook to anticipate my master's will and do his slightest
bidding.

"As for the hump on the top of my head, that is a mark given by the
Creator only to dogs that have intellect. Pray that yours may grow!"

That is all he said, but it was enough for one day and has furnished me
food for thought ever since.

JUST AS SHE PLEASED.

"Now, children, I am tired of you; I am going down stairs for the rest
of the morning," and Polly started to leave the nursery.

"Put your dolls away before you go," said Nurse, "I don't want them left
in the middle of the floor."

"I won't. I did not put them there." Polly tossed her