I have some elegant ones--not as elegant as yours, though--but of course I don't wear them now." Laura--"I suppose they are rather common, but still I have a great affection for these, because they were given to me by a dear old friend of our family named Murphy.

He was a very charming man, but very eccentric.

We always supposed he was an Irishman, but after be got rich he went abroad for a year or two, and when he came back you would have been amused to see how interested he was in a potato.

He asked what it was! Now you know that when Providence shapes a mouth especially for the accommodation of a potato you can detect that fact at a glance when that mouth is in repose--foreign travel can never remove that sign.

But he was a very delightful gentleman, and his little foible did not hurt him at all.