Round about Chicago 



WHEN the pronoun we occurs in what 

 is to follow, it may be understood to 

 mean the following: Mother, a bright, 

 happy-hearted woman, just as old as her 

 children; her son, a big boy; her big little 

 girl, called Daisy; and an o. m., unattached; 

 or these with additions or subtractions. When 

 the pronoun I is used it may be understood 

 to mean the o. m., which may also be written 

 in the exclamatory manner, Oh! Em! 



By this time it is needless to say that the o. m. 

 is of the teaching sisterhood. Yet, gentle reader, 

 turn not away ! 



We are alone this summer, that is, without 

 masculine hindrance; for Father, the correlative 

 of Mother, is hence, on business bent, so there 

 are no meals to be gotten to the minute, and no 

 reason why we should be at home except at bed, 

 time. So we are going, all of us, not alone the 

 o. m., to have a taste of real freedom and real 

 joy, of the harmless country kind, I hasten to add. 



We may wander unafraid and unabashed. The 



