four corners of my Aunt's Flower Garden
for sale--

thee, and lov'd thee, and ne'er can forget._'"

MDLLE. ROSALIE _to_ M. PHILOMENE.--I have the four corners of my Aunt's
Flower Garden for sale--

thee, and lov'd thee, and ne'er can forget._'

M. PHILOMENE _to_ MADAME DE MONTPARNASSE.--I have the four corners of my
Aunt's Flower Garden, etc., etc.

MADAME DE MONTPARNASSE _to_ M. DORINET.--I have the four corners of my
Aunt's Flower Garden, etc., etc.

Monsieur Dorinet repeats the formula to Madame Desjardins; Madame
Desjardins passes it on to me; I proclaim it at the top of my voice to
Madame Marotte; Madame Marotte transfers it to Mdlle. Honoria; Mdlle.
Honoria delivers it to the fair Marie; the fair Marie tells it to M.
Lenoir, and the first round is completed.

Mueller resumes the lead :--

"_In the second grow heartsease and wild eglantine;
Fair exchange is no theft--for my heart, give me thine_."

MDLLE. ROSALIE _to_ M. PHILOMENE:--

"_In the second grow heartsease and wild eglantine;
Fair exchange is no theft--for my heart, give me thine_."

M. PHILOMENE _to_ MDLLE. DE MONTPARNASSE:--

"_In the second grow heartsease_," &c., &c.

And so on again, till the second round is done. Then Mueller began
again:--

"_In the third of these corners pale primroses grow;
Now tell me thy secret, and whisper it low_."

Mdlle. Rosalie was about to repeat these lines as before; but he stopped
her.

"No, Mademoiselle, not till you have told me the secret."

"The secret, M'sieur? What secret?"

"Nay, Mademoiselle, how can I tell that till you have told me? You must
whisper something to me--something very secret, which you would not wish
any one else to hear--before you repeat the lines. And when you repeat
them, Monsieur Philomene must whisper his secret to you--and so on
through the circle."

Mdlle. Rosalie hesitated, smiled, whispered something in Mueller's ear,
and went on with:--

"_In the third of these corners pale primroses grow;
Now tell me thy secret, and whisper it low_."

Monsieur Philomene then whispered his secret to Mdlle. Rosalie, and so
on again till it ended with M. Lenoir and Mueller.

"I don't think it is a very amusing game," said Madame Marotte; who,
being deaf, had been left out of the last round, and found it dull.

"It will be more entertaining presently, Madame," shouted Mueller, with a
malicious twinkle about his eyes. "Pray observe