Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: have mentioned that you bought a salmon, which was too much for two, and that you paid one pound six, which is more than sve can afford." "You enjoyed it very much, and you said I was a mouse." "And I'll say so again, my love, a thousand times!" I said it a thousand times and went on saying it, until Dora was comforted and once more smiled upon me with those beautiful eyes. "I am very sorry for all this, Doady," said Dora, at last. " Will you call me a name 1 want you to call me ? " "What is it, my love?" " It's a stupid name,—child-wife. When you are going to be angry with me, say to yourself, ' It's only my child-wife.' When I am very disappointing, say, ' I knew a long time ago that she would make but a child-wife.' When you miss what you would like, me to be, and what I should like to be, and what I think I never can be, say, ' Still my foolish child- wife loves me.' For indeed, I do, Doady." I invoke the innocent figure I so dearly loved to come out of the mists and shadows of the past, and to turn its gentle head towards me once again, and to bear witness that it was made happy by what I answered.— Charles Dickens. HIAWATHA'S WOOING. (Prize Selection, at the North Mo. State Normal, June, 1886.) " As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman, Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows, Useless each without the other." Thus my youthful Hiawatha Said within himself and pondered, Listless, longing, hoping, fearing, Dreaming still of Minnehaha, Of the lovely Laughing Water, In the land of the Dakotas. 'Wed a maiden of your people," Warning spake the old Nokomis, " Go not eastward, go not westward, For a stranger whom we know not! Like a fire upon the hearthstone Is a neighbor's homely daughter, Like th...