They instituted a search at once, but the animal could not be found.

Well, it happened that the family with whom my cousin was stopping consisted of father and mother and one son about ten years old.

The boy, whose name was Mike, was a regular limb.

Always in mischief and----" "As I was saying," broke in Tom at this juncture, "when I was about to leave the hospital, a man in the upper ward concluded to depart this world for a better one.

It happened about eight o'clock in the evening, and, as was usual in such cases, the nurse on watch was supposed to get several convalescent patients and a stretcher and carry the body down to a little wooden house a hundred yards from the main building.