WITH A WINE-GLASS. —— «65

-— ful smile, and she “ thah-thahed” more than

usual.

“True for ye, Mary,” she said at last;
“but I love the smallest bone in her’ body
more’ than the bodies of all my customers
put together.” |

* Pegay

“Ay, do I; her mother was the sweetest
lady that ever broke this ‘world’s bread.
My mother and grandmother, and great
grandmother, all lived in the family ; wor
born in the family, farther back than I can
tell. They had estates in both England and
Ireland, the great family I mean; sometimes
oo in one country, and by-times in anoth- |

; but my people held on that they were

ee and my sweet lady used to say, ‘stick,
- to. that, Peggy! Thah! thah! just to think
of it.’ |

“Think of what, Peggy?”

“Of the world’s changes;. wonderful to