A FEW weeks later, and the contemplated change was made.

The family removed into a moderate-sized house, at a lower rent, and prepared to test the new mode of obtaining a livelihood.

A good portion of their furniture had been sold, besides three gold watches and some valuable jewelry belonging to Mrs.Darlington and her two eldest daughters, in order to make up a sum sufficient to pay off the debt contracted during the last few months of the boarding-house experiment.

The real loss sustained by the widow in this experiment fell little short of a thousand dollars.
"How many scholars have you now ?" asked Mrs.Darlington of Edith, two months after the school was opened, as they sat at tea one evening, each member of the family wearing a cheerful face.
"Twenty," replied Edith.

"We received two new ones to-day.