190 TROTTY’S WEDDING TOUR. and Bib is old enough to black his own boots, and women vote, and law-students feel differently about what their wives shall do. To be sure, there is the paste; but you know it’s only flour and water, if you will stop to think so. And to see the blank, spotty, ugly wall grow grand and fresh under your fingers quite makes up for the splash and splutter and the sweeping out.’ It’s next to frescoing, I think. I like to do a thing in which you feel that you are making something over into something better. The gray shades went up like the mists for Alta and me; there was not a wrinkle in the clean little cranberry line ; and dove’s breasts and thunder-clouds “ were glad together ”’ (as Miss Ingelow has it) all over mother’s little low room at last. She was coming in the morning train; we were none too soon. “ Now,” said Alta, “ we ll sweep out, and look at it; then we ll put things to rights. Don’t let ’s look at it till we ’ve swept out.” “I suppose it is sweeping — and — being a little dizzy, that makes —” “Makes what?” asked Alta, leaning on her broom. “I told you not to look. I don’t see anything but a little crook- edness about the walls, which comes from being dizzy, as you say.” “The cranberry line does n’t seem exactly — straight — while one is sweeping and whirling about,” said I. “It is-