I shall keep Lulu at home, and educate her myself,--act as her tutor, I mean,--and if my boy would like to become my pupil also"-- "O papa! indeed, indeed I should!" exclaimed Max joyfully, as his father paused, looking smilingly at him; "and I'll try hard to do you credit as my teacher as well as my father." "Then we will make the trial," said the captain.

"If it should not prove a success, there will be time enough after that to try a school." "What about me, papa ?" asked Grace wistfully, feeling as if she were being overlooked in the arrangements.
"You, too, shall say lessons to papa," he answered with tender look and tone.

"Shall you like that ?" "Ever so much!" she exclaimed, lifting glad, shining eyes to his face.
"Now you may go back to your play," he said, gently putting her off his knee.

"I must go to your mamma and our poor, suffering baby." He went; but the children lingered a while where they were, talking over this wonderfully good news.
"Now," said Max, "if Lu had only controlled her temper yesterday, what a happy family we'd be!" "Yes," sighed Grace; "how I do wish she had! Oh, I'm so sorry for her, that she doesn't know this about papa going to stay with us all the time! 'Sides, she's 'specting to be sent away somewhere; and how dreadfully she must feel! Papa's punishing her very hard, and very long; but of course he knows best, and he loves her." "Yes, I'm sure he does," assented Max: "so he won't give her any more punishment than he thinks she needs.

It'll be a fine thing for her, and all the rest of us too, if this hard lesson teaches her never to get into a passion again." Capt.