THE SILVER LAKE sToRtEs. 51

“Maggy, mom,” she answered.

« And where are you going ?”

“JT don’t know, mom, I’m directed.”

“You are directed; what do you
mean by that?”

“Why, I mean it’s on my box, where
I am going.”

“ Are you going to visit friends ?”

“Oh, no, mom, she’s no friend at all ;.
I never see her before day before yes- —
terday, when she come to the ’sylum,
and she said she liked my looks, and
she would take me, and they was to
send me down by the coach.” |

“How long have you been in the
asylum ?”