SEEING THE MUSEUM. 59

distant. "When Mrs. Cramer heard the events
of the morning related, she said :

“Tt is quite time for us to leave the city.
We will go home to-morrow morning. I am
so thankful your eye was not injured, that I
do not mind much the wounds on your face,
although I think one of them will leave a scar
there as long as you live.”

“Why, brother, your wearing your glass.
with eye shut, reminds me of a piece of poetry
I lately read, written by Cowper. It begins in
this way:

‘ Between eyes and nose, a strange contest arose,
To which of them the spectacles belonged.’

I can’t repeat it, but mouth was the lawyer,
and pleaded the cause so well for nose, that
the decision was, that when

‘Nose put spectacles on, eyes should be shut.’

You seem to have come to a similar decision,
and thus to have saved your eye. Give me
the brass frame hanging at your button-hole,
in memory of your happy escape.”

George snapped the ribbon, and passionately
threw the frame out the window.