"No, ma'am.

Neither'd anybody else." "Why is it, Mr.Martin ?" asked Miss Selina.
"It's like the Creator's sayin', 'Let there be light.' He says, 'Let ladies be lovely--'" (Miss Tibbs bowed)--"and 'Let men-folks be honest--sometimes;' and, 'Let fat people be held up to ridicule till they fall off.' You can't tell why it is; it was jest ordained that-a-way." The room was so crowded that the juvenile portion of the assemblage was ensconced in the windows.

Strange to say, the youth of Plattville were not present under protest, as their fellows of a metropolis would have been, lectures being well understood by the young of great cities to have instructive tendencies.

The boys came to-night because they insisted upon coming.

It was an event.