"Yes, hang it up.

And, Max, if you don't feel it beneath the dignity of a lad of your size, there will be no harm in your trying the same experiment." "I'm ashamed to think of it, sir, only because I've already had so much," said Max.
"But you are always safe in following your father's advice," remarked Violet.
"Oh yes, I know that, and I'll do it, Mamma Vi," returned the boy, with ill-concealed satisfaction.
"Now all three of you get to bed and to sleep as soon as you can, in order to give the old fellow a chance to pay his visit," said the captain; "for I have always understood that he never does so till all the children in the house are asleep.

I'll go in to kiss my little girls good-night after they are snug in bed, but we will reserve our talk till morning." "Yes, papa, we will," they said and hastened away to do his bidding.
At Ion too, there was a beautiful Christmas tree, bearing fruit not very dissimilar to that of the one at Woodburn.

It had been the occasion of much mirth and rejoicing on the part of the children, and pleasure to the older people: the gifts had been apportioned, those of the servants bestowed and carried away, but most of those belonging to the family, and all the ornaments, were left upon it that the guests of to-morrow might be treated to the spectacle of its beauty..