If it wasn't, more folks would do it.

Tell me, now," he added, changing the subject to avoid further cross- questioning, "do you and your ma like it here ?" The answer was enthusiastic.

"Oh, yes!" she exclaimed, "we like it ever and ever so much.

Mamma says it's--" Barbara hesitated, and then, after what was evidently a severe mental struggle, finished with, "she said once it was like paradise after category." "After--which ?" The young lady frowned.

"It doesn't seem to me," she observed, slowly, "as if 'category' was what she said.