this Fall, school bound, lookiug as if prepared for a Lapland 

 journey, in the red clad legs and hands, I fancy I recognize 

 fac-similes of those knit comforts that in the sultry Fair days 

 spoke a pro})hetic language of defense against the near Winter. 

 One " crazy cushion " was present — so named from the 

 medley of figures, each worked by a friend, and interspersed as 

 thickly as consistent with taste. There character seems to be 

 comic, ever, for the Japanese pictures enter largely into their 

 construction, and the little swaddled men are made twice as 

 high as contiguous pagodas ; gnomes waltz about the borders 

 or monkeys with brooms seem to entertain dark designs on the 

 Colorado beetle that generally occupies one or two sections — 

 as cobiquitous almost as his living self in our potato patch. 

 They might be made souvenirs of sentiment — each space the 

 memory of a happy day. Did you spend a Summer in your 

 friend's country house ? then record the bright mornings in the 

 garden, when the drapery of your dress swept out sweet odors 

 from the mignonette in the borders, by a little picture of a gar- 

 den hat and rake. Did you thread the grassy lanes, bridle to 

 bridle, or canter over long stretches of road till your blood 

 seemed fountains of buoyancy ? then interweave the head of 

 Vic or Leo with the beautiful arching neck and proud nostrils 

 Perchance, some ]->oetic eve, voices blended and cadences trem- 

 bled the leaves and died in faint echoes over the river in the 

 wood beyond — a night to be remembered by its unwonted 

 radiance of moonbeam, its clear cut shadows of tree and shrub, 

 the gentleness of its dews, that fell and glistened on the sward 

 yet brought no chill with them ? then on the canvas work a bar 

 of music, the notes the same as had such witchery and melody 

 as never to be forgotten because of the conditions of that night 

 In the years to come a lonely woman may look upon the faded 

 tapestry and in each figure find a remembrancer of a specific 



