EYES, AND NO EYES,

“T wish I had seen it!” said Arthur,
*T never see half the things you do.”

“That's only because you do not look.
Do you remember ‘ Eyes and no efes” ” said
Fanny laughing. Now you should open
yours a little; they are quite bigrenough to
see with. You might have got a kind
word from that nice old lady, and have had
her ear-trumpet to look at, as I had; ‘she let
me hold one end of the thing,—twbe she
called it,—and speak to her through it, while
she put the other to her ear, and answered
me, and explained how it was made; it is of
Indian-rubber, and is light and so easy to
carry, she just hangs it over her arm.”

“But how did you get to speak to her,
when you never saw her before? does
mamma or Uncle Tom know her?” asked
Arthur, who was sorry to have lost the
sight of so ingenious a contrivance, for he
had a strong love for mechanical inventions
and scientific instruments.

“Oh! we do not know her; I saw that
she was deaf by the little girl’s speaking to

ae) 387

A