As she played I dreamed again, till presently Mrs.Luckett began to argue with Hilary that the shrubs about the garden ought to be cut and trimmed.

Hilary said he liked to see the shrubs and the trees growing freely; he objected to cut and trim them.

'For,' said he, 'God made nothing tidy.' Just then Cicely called us to supper.
NOTES.
The following interesting correspondence has been received.
MAGPIE OMENS.

_Page 153._--In reference to the superstition that one magpie is good luck, but two sorrow, 'R.

F.' writes from Wiesbaden:--'In the north of England the contrary belief holds good, witness the following saw which I heard many years ago in the county of Durham:-- "One for sorrow, two for mirth; Three a marriage, four a birth; Five for heaven, six for hell, Seven--the devil's own sel!" As to seventeen, which number I once saw together, Mrs.Luckett's exclamation "Goodness! something awful might happen" might have been appropriate; only nothing dreadful did occur.' CART-HORSE ORNAMENTS.