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98 UNOPENED PARCELS. I call this a beautiful sight. Others may fancy that the children must be greedy or covetous because they fix their eyes so longingly on the unopened parcel, and handle it so carefully as they make a few vain efforts to act on the "waste not, want not" principle, by untying the knots of the string. But to me the recollection of the scene brings quite a different train of thought, and makes me wish, in the depths of my heart, that we grown-up people could retain childhood's reliance in unopened parcels. For look you how the matter always ended. Not once in a hundred times did any one of the children find inside the parcel any one of the four different things they most wished for in the. world on the four different flights of stairs; and yet not once in a hundred times did any one of them express dissatisfaction or feel it. No; they took what actually came, as a thousand times better than anything they could possibly have thought of-as no doubt it was; for besides knowing what the children fancied they should like, the grandmother, or whoever it might be, had a sort of witch-like insight as to what