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138 UNOPENED PARCELS. text themselves. Both nurses were up now, and at last one of them asked What he saw ?' and then came the unhappy answer (also suggested by their chatter) that he saw papa. "The noise had by this time awakened one of the other children, and a little half-roused girl was told confidentially by the younger nurse that 'Master Tommy had seen his poor dear papa, and it would break missus's heart.' 'Poor dear papa!' was all the child answered at the time, for she dropped to sleep again at once; but the next morning Tommy found himself installed in all the privileges and prestige of a ghost-seer, though the fact was only spoken of in whispers in the nursery, for little Missy was warned she would make her mamma quite ill if she said one word to her about it. "This was the beginning of the evil, Honor," continued my father. "Do, not expect me to account for its continuance, only observe how easy it is to get entangled in wrong-doing. He might have forgotten the night adventure, perhaps, but that the honour of having seen a ghost being thrust