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young thing simply ignoring the hitherto impenetrable barrier! The clear young eyes looked straight through it, the fresh young voice made nothing of it, the playful fancies overleapt it. A quarry, indeed! Where had the child got hold of the word? Of a sudden the old man bent forward and lightly touched the laughing face in token of surrender. "It's an old bird you've winged, little girl," he said, as he rose to his feet and stepped once more to the bell-rope; and this time he really rang for his coat and overshoes. * * * * * "And so you've named this little chap Horatio?" Dinner was over,--a very pleasant, natural kind of dinner, too, in spite of the difficulty some of the family had found in eating it,--and they were all gathered about a roaring woodfire, fortifying themselves, with the aid of coffee, cigars, and chocolate-drops,--each according to his kind,--for a game of blind-man's-buff. The small scion of the house was seated on his grandfather's knee, playing with his grandfather's fob, after the immemorial habit of small scions. "Of course we named him Horatio!" It was Mrs. Crosby who answered, and, as her father-in-law looked across at her face with the firelight playing upon it, he seemed to remember that he had always wished for a daughter. "And what do you call him for short?" "Just Horatio!" piped up little Alice, who was sitting on the rug at the old gentleman's feet, gently pulling Rollo's long-suffering ears. "Yes," said Mr. Thomas Crosby; "we have always been proud of the name." Then Di, perceiving a slight unsteadiness in the voice in which this was said, stepped behind her grandfather's chair, and, dropping a small kiss on the top of his head, looked across at her father, and exclaimed: "Oh, Papa! To think of our having bagged a grandfather!" * * * * * A Selection from the Catalogue of G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS Complete Catalogue sent on application BY ANNA FULLER A LITERARY COURTSHIP Under the Auspices of Pike's Peak. 28th thousand. Illustrated. Sextodecimo, gilt top. $1.25 "A delightful little love story. Like her other books it is bright and breezy; its humor is crisp, and the general idea decidedly original."--Boston Times. A VENETIAN JUNE Illustrated by George Sloane. 15th thousand. Sextodecimo, gilt top $1.25 "Full of the picturesqueness, the novelty,
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