She's very well off as she is, and now that her house is a little more comfortable, it would be well to leave her in peace, to peddle what she pleases on her door-step.

Her crown will worry her less where it is than on her head." Corny whispered to her mother, who nodded, and took out her pocket-book.
In a moment, Corny, with some change in her hand, went quietly up to the yard and put the money in the queen's lap.

Then we went away and left her, still asleep.
A day or two after this, the "Tigress" came in, bringing the mail.

We saw her, from one of the upper porticoes, when she was just on the edge of the horizon, and we knew her by the way she stood up high in the water, and rolled her smoke-stack from side to side.

She was the greatest roller that ever floated, I reckon, but a jolly good ship for all that; and we were glad enough to see her.
There were a lot of letters for us in her mail.