MYSTERIOUS CALLERS Big Bill Farnsworth came into the nursery, where Patty was playing with the baby.

It was the nurse's luncheon hour, and Patty always looked after Fleurette then.
"Take her, Daddy," Patty cried, holding up the soft, fragrant little bundle of happy humanity, and Farnsworth grasped the child in his strong careful way, and tossed her up high above his head.
The baby laughter that followed proved Fleurette's delight in this performance, and she mutely insisted on its repetition.
"Azalea does that," said Patty, in a troubled tone, "she is strong and very athletic, I know, but I can't bear to see anybody toss baby around but you." "No; Azalea oughtn't to do it,--she is strong, but she isn't careful enough.

Don't allow it, Patty." "I do forbid it, but she comes in here when I don't know it,--or she picks baby out of her carriage, Winnie says, and tosses her clear up and catches her again." "I'll speak to her about it; why, she'll drop the child some day! She must not do it!" "I wish you would speak to her," Patty sighed.

"Azalea is really a trial.

I don't know what to do with her.