monk came to announce that the goldsmith begged his benefactor to
receive him. When he appeared in the hall where the abbot was, he
displayed two marvellous caskets, which, from that time, no workman has
surpassed in any place of the Christian world, and which were called
"the vow of perseverance in love." These two treasures are, as every one
knows, placed on the high altar of the church; and are judged to be of
inestimable workmanship, since the goldsmith had expended all he had on
them.

Nevertheless, this gift, instead of emptying his treasury, filled it to
overflowing, because it so increased his fame and profits that he was
able to purchase broad lands and letters of nobility, and founded the
house of Anseau, which has since been in high honor in Touraine.






MISS HENDERSON'S THANKSGIVING DAY.

BY HORATIO ALGER, JR.





THANKSGIVING day dawned clearly and frostily upon the little village of
Castleton Hollow. The stage, which connected daily with the nearest
railroad station--for as yet Castleton Hollow had not arrived at the