This was a favorite method with him of entertaining visitors.
[Illustration: MAKING MOLASSES CANDY .-- Page 92.] Phebe Dolan was a young colored girl, who had a very desirable home at Mrs.Clifford's, but who always persisted in going about the house in a dejected manner, as if some one had treated her unkindly.

For all that, she was very happy; and under her solemn face was a deal of quiet fun.
Katinka Dinkelspiel was a good-natured German girl, with a face as round as a full moon, and eyes as expressive as two blots of blue paint.

She wore her fair hair rolled in front on each side into a puff like a capital O.Dotty looked at her in surprise.

She was very unlike Norah, who wore bright ribbons on her head.

And Katinka talked broken English, stirring up her words in such a way that the sentences were like Chinese puzzles; they needed to be taken apart and put together differently.
"Please to make the door too," she said to Horace; and it was half a minute before Dotty understood that she was asking him to shut it.
"This is my cousin Dotty Dimple, girls; the handsomest of the family; but not the best one--are you, though ?" at the same time giving Miss Dimple a chair.
"How d'ye, miss ?" said Phebe, mournfully.
Katinka said nothing, but patted the letter O on the right side of her head.
"O, Phib, my mother says if you are not too tired, you may make some candy; she said so, candidly." Horace was just old enough to delight in puns.
Now, this was a pleasant message to Phebe; she would have been glad to keep her fingers in molasses half the time.