246 ‘* Achusetts’s Ride to Philadelphia.”

dressed to “Philadelphia, Penn.” It was very
dark in the letter-box, and poor Achusetts’s eyes
were swollen with crying, so he mistook the Peuu
for Mass.

“That is where I belong,” he thought, “right
up near the Mass, and there is plenty of room for
me, too. But I am not going to ask this letter
to let me get on, because I have been refused so
many times.

So just as the postman slid the letters out,
Achusetts scrambled quickly on the envelope, and
threw his arms tightly about Penn till he was
firmly stuck. Penn struggled wildly to escape,
but in vain. When they got out into the light,
what was Achusetts’s horror to find that he had
fastened himself on to a Fenn instead of a Mass,
But the mischief was done; they could not sepa-
rate, although they were very much afraid that
Achusetts’s unfortunate blunder would send them
to the dead-letter office. But the letter did, after
all, reach its destination, although little Robert
Richardson was very much surprised, and laughed
heartily to get a letter addressed to him at—