His father has procured for him the very best teachers, and is determined to give him all the advantages in his power to bestow.

Mary and Kate are two sprightly girls, near the respective ages of eight and eleven; and Harry, a quiet, innocent-minded, loving child, is in his sixth year.
There is another still, a little giddy, dancing elf, named Lizzy, whose voice, except during the brief periods of sleep, rings through the house all day.

And yet another, who has just come, that the home of Mr.Bancroft may not be without earth's purest form of innocence--a newborn babe.
To feed, clothe, educate, and find house-room for several children, was more than the father could well do on a thousand dollars a year.
But this was not required.

During the five or six years that have elapsed, he has passed from the insurance office into a banking institution as book-keeper, at a salary of twelve hundred dollars, thence to the receiving teller's place, which he now holds at fifteen hundred dollars a year.

As his means have gradually increased, his style of living has altered.