At breakfast we have no time to spare, for the duties of the day are clamoring for attention; at the noon-day dining hour some of the family are absent; but at six o'clock in the evening we all come to the tea-table for chit-chat and the recital of adventures.

We take our friends in with us--the more friends, the merrier.

You may imagine that the following chapters are things said or conversations indulged in, or papers read, or paragraphs, made up from that interview.

We now open the doors very wide and invite all to come in and be seated around the tea-table.
T.DEW.

T.
CONTENTS.
CHAP.
I .-- The table-cloth is spread II .-- Mr.Givemfits and Dr.Butterfield III .-- A growler soothed IV .-- Carlo and the freezer V .-- Old games repeated VI .-- The full-blooded cow VII .-- The dregs in Leatherback's tea-cup VIII .-- The hot axle IX .-- Beefsteak for ministers X .-- Autobiography of an old pair of scissors XI .-- A lie, zoologically considered XII .-- A breath of English air XIII .-- The midnight lecture XIV .-- The sexton XV .-- The old cradle XVI .-- The horse's letter XVII .-- Kings of the kennel XVIII .-- The massacre of church music XIX .-- The battle of pew and pulpit XX .-- The devil's grist-mill XXI .-- The conductor's dream XXII .-- Push & Pull XXIII .-- Bostonians XXIV .-- Jonah vs.