klayers'
labourers. They run up and down the tall ladders with heavy loads of
bricks or mortar, chattering gaily all the while as if life were one
long holiday.

The houses are built in quite a different way from ours. First of all a
complete skeleton house is set up, made of wood, and, when this is
finished, the spaces between the wooden structure are filled in with
bricks and mortar. Before the roof is put on, a large green bush is
hoisted up as far as the eaves, and there tied to the scaffolding poles.
This is supposed to drive away the pixies or wicked fairies, and no one
would dare to put the roof on without the protection of the green bush.

The women also do the work of journeymen bakers. The loaves are of the
long kind, sometimes jokingly called 'half-yards of bread.' These are
carried on the backs of the women. They look very droll with their huge
burdens, the loaves poking out in all directions above their shoulders,
making a kind of background to their stooping figures.

Most of the people who visit Bohemia in order to take the mineral waters
are very stout. They drink them to make themselves thinner, and the
difference in their appearance when they arrive and when they leave is
very great. They have sometimes to take mud baths, and it is very
amusing to watch them going and returning from these. It does not seem
to be a very pleasant way of spending a fine summer morning, but they
appear to enjoy it all the same.

The Bohemians are very fond of music, and they never fail to greet any
new-comers of importance with a serenade on the evening of their
arrival.

HOW TOM DRESSES.

AT HOME.

A grimy face,
A muddy boot,
A broken lace,
And shabby suit;
With threadbare knee,
And dusty coat,
And dirty collar
Round his throat.

OUT VISITING.

Now see! his face is
All aglow;
He's tied both laces
In a bow;
He's combed his hair,
He's brushed his suit--
There's not a speck
On either boot;
His collar now
Is new and clean--
A neater boy
I've never seen.

Yet Tom should be,
Beyond a doubt,
As clean at home
As when he's out;
For those who dress
'Mid friends to roam,
Should dress as well
For those at home.

JOHN LEA.

READY!

'What is the use of fagging like that on a hot day?' asked Harold Lock
of his brother Frank, who came and flung hi