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and the few that remain betake them- he seen or heard from rarely ; and the 
se ves with the thrushes and the Rose- Red-eyed Vireo, singing high up in a 
feasted Grosbeak in silence to the sultry noon, alone is left of all that 
deeper recesses of the woods, there to mirthful company. F. P. S. 
ZERUB THROOP 
BY MRS. A. D 
IY. 
HOW THE GHOST MANAGED. — MRS. 
EYLETT BRIGHT’S STORY. 
My dear, I will tell you all about 
it. It was a haunted house. It was 
all explained by simple causes, — yes ; 
hut it was a haunted house, neverthe- 
less. It is a haunted '<\yorld we live 
in, for that matter, Dora Dutton. 
You see there are so many of us, — 
so many little Eylett Brights : I like 
to call them by their whole patro- 
nymic, it suits them so well, Dutton 
dear. 
We all needed the country that 
summer. I was run down with change 
of servants, and nursing ; little Thode 
had just crept out of scarlet fever, 
with the tattered shreds of his dear 
little mortality about him, wanting all 
sorts of patching up ; and the other 
children had had it too, more or less ; 
mostly less, thank the good Provi- 
dence ! We all needed the country — 
doctor said we must have it ; but 
there was Eylett tied down to his 
desk, and the two thousand was’nt 
any bigger for us this year than ever 
before. 
The country is so wide and free ; 
and yet it is so hard to get a place in 
a place for ever so many little 
Eylett Brights ! 
We wanted a large house, and 
we wanted it furnished ; there must 
be plenty of out-of-doors, and yet we 
S EXPERIMENT. 
. T. WHITNEY. 
did not want a “ place ” that would 
have to be kept up. People who were 
going to Europe, and had out-of-town 
residences to leave, must leave them 
to their own sort, you know ; carriage 
and lawn and garden people, who 
would have gardeners and grooms. It 
was as much as ever we could do to 
have Onie and Ann. More ; for they 
were both going to leave. They had 
objections to the country. So we 
got Margaret and Ellen from the in- 
telligence office, — the same article, 
you know, with a new label ; and 
there isn’t much variety in the labels, 
either. It is wonderful how we have 
rung over the changes, — Margaret 
and Katy and Ann ; Bridget and 
Ann and Katy ; Bridget and Marga- 
ret and Ellen ; and how natural, of 
course, the name sounds, whichever it 
is, when they tell it; and how the 
impression of the whole successive 
multitude drifts and runs together in 
our minds into the image of one 
great, awful, representative — kitchen 
creature ! 
Well, we searched the papers, and 
we searched the country; we had 
spent fifteen dollars before we knew 
it, running out and in to see things, 
and conclude they wouldn’t do. So 
we kept quiet a while, and almost 
gave it up. Eylett said we might hit 
upon something by and by, when 
somebody’s house was loft on their 
hands, too late for a high rent or a 
whole season. I didn’t see how, 
