"I should like to know whether that's a hay-cock or a mountain!" Miss Matilda winced; for this must refer to her favorite monochrome, executed by laying on heavy shadows and stumping them down into mellow harmony,--the style of drawing which is taught in six lessons, and the kind of specimen which is executed in something less than one hour.
Parents and other very near relatives are sometimes gratified with these productions, and cause them to be framed and hung up, as in the present instance.
"I guess we won't go down jest yet," said Mrs.Crane, "as folks don't seem to have come." So she began a systematic inspection of the dressing-room and its conveniences.
"Mahogany four-poster;--come from the Jordans', I cal'la,te.

Marseilles quilt.

Ruffles all round the piller.

Chintz curtings,--jest put up,--o' purpose for the party, I'll lay ye a dollar .-- What a nice washbowl!" (Taps it with a white knuckle belonging to a red finger.) "Stone chaney .-- Here's a bran'-new brush and comb,--and here's a scent-bottle.
Come here, girls, and fix yourselves in the glass, and scent your pocket-handkerchers." And Mrs.Crane bedewed her own kerchief with some of the eau de Cologne of native manufacture,--said on its label to be much superior to the German article.
It was a relief to Mrs.and the Miss Cranes when the bell rang and the next guests were admitted.

Deacon and Mrs.Soper,--Deacon Soper of the Rev.Mr.Fairweather's church, and his lady.