is a pole-mast and stepped in front of the stern-post.
If the mizzen be stepped abaft the stern-post the vessel becomes a
"dandy" or "yawl."

In the cutter the mizzen is dispensed with, and in a sloop of the old
rig the difference between the two is that the cutter has two headsails,
the jib and foresail, while the sloop has but one, the foresail.

Sometimes the sloop has a standing bowsprit, while the cutter has a
running one; but this distinction is not essential. Indeed, the words
cutter and sloop have begun to be used indiscriminately, except,
perhaps, that a cutter is for pleasure and a sloop for trade.

In a spritsail rig the gaff is at the head of the sail, and works on the
mast in cheeks; the sprit runs diagonally across the sail, and is hung
on to the mast in what is practically a loop and lashing.

This has also what looks like a mizzen, but it is fixed on to the rudder
and is known as a "jigger." Sometimes the jigger is triangular, like the
yawl's mizzen, but the shape makes no difference in the name.

The lug is the old sail of the Norsemen. There are two kinds of lugs,
"dipping" and "standing."

The dipping lug has a great part of the sail beyond the mast, so that
when a tack has to be made the sail has to be lowered, dipped round the
mast and rehoisted.

The standing lug projects very little beyond this mast and does not
require to be lowered when tacking.

Fishing boats are nearly all rigged with a dipping lug for the mainsail
and a standing lug for the mizzen, and they have also a jib, while some
of them carry topsails over the lugs.

Luggers may carry any number of masts, but as a rule they have two; some
have a gaff mizzen. When the foot of the lug is lashed to a boom it is
said to be "balanced."

THE NORTH AVENUE ARCHINGTONS.

by ANNA J. M'KEAG.

When Mary Anne Smith returned for her second year at Mrs. Hosmer's
Seminary, both teachers and pupils were astonished at the change
in her appearance and manners which a summer at the seashore had
produced.

The previous year she had been plain Mary Anne Smith, an energetic,
impulsive girl, whose most serious fault was a tendency to soiled
collars and buttonless shoes, but who was, on the whole, very
good-hearted and sincere.

She had returned to school as Marie Antoinette Smythe, a fashionable
young lady. She discontinued her old, romping, laughing ways and became
as sedate as the gravest Senior.

Even her ol