strategy and will soon get the buffalo-robe. It tells of two boys and
three girls, all gathered in the robe, with the rollicking one as
fireman and engineer, making the famous trip down the stairs which shall
tumble them all into the presence of a parent who will make a weak
demonstration of severity, clearly official, and merely masking a very
evident inclination to try a trip on the same train.


WHERE WAS THIS?

Why at the dear old Home, in the Long Ago. Who was the fireman and
engineer? Why, this great, pompous man of business, whose short note his
sister has just laid down--of course, he was the fireman and the
engineer!

We see the sister of Rembrandt, the painter, traveling weary miles to
the house of the brother whom in youth she shielded from the wrath of a
drunken father, whose rude pictures she concealed from eyes that would
have looked upon them in anger. Now he is the most celebrated painter of
his time. He is rich beyond the imagination of his humble
contemporaries. He never receives people into his stronghold.


TWO GREAT DOGS GUARD THE ENTRANCE.

Into a gloomy portal the aged sister enters, and soon the miser and the
good angel of his past are together. There they sit in the dusk, and
recall, after sixty years of separation, the scenes of the Home which
existed eighty years before! We marvel at a word that comes along a
cable under the ocean. Why should we not also wonder at a little word