Jenny-and so I shall write and tell Pappy-I -have-seen-Tommy;" and thereupon she

burst into tears.

"I know you have," said Jane; "

out on purpose."

you went

"I-never-saw-anybody dead before,"

sobbed Kate; "but I am glad I went," and here she cried exceedingly.

"Kitty," said Harriet, rising from her seat and taking her hand in her hands, "

my dear

girl, you should not cry in this manner. What

avails all this sorrow?-he is gone to a better world; indeed if you had consulted me, I should have strongly urged the uselessness of such a visit I might almost add, the danger."

I felt a slight shudder at the thought-my poor baby unconsciously sleeping within three yards of the excited young lady.

"I don't care for danger," said Kate," and as for asking you, aunt, I knew you would not have let me go, and so did Mrs. Brandyball, and that was the reason she confided the whole arrangement to Mrs. Sniggs, who is such a very nice woman."

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Kitty," said Harriet, "whatever opinion Mrs. Brandyball may form of strangers, not only to herself but to us, I must be permitted to think that we, who are the nearest connexions you have in England, and who can have no interest separate from yours, are quite as likely to advise for the best as Mrs. Sniggs."

"Yes," said Kate, "that is quite true, but then you say you are not able to be out and about shopping."

"No," said Harriet, "nor should I be out and about shopping, while your brother lay unburied, even if I were otherwise well enough to undertake the fatigue."

“Ah, well,” said Kate, with an air of independence more impertinent than any thing I had yet seen, "that's as you think-of course I am not so old as you are, and don't know so much; but I am older than Jane, and when I order her to do anything, good-natured as I am to her in general, I expect it to be done.”

"Not," said I, "if what you ask is contrary to her feelings and principles."

"I don't know," said Kate, "about prin

ciples; but I know that when Tom was alive I didn't care more for him than she did; but now that he is dead and all that, I wished to go and see him in his coffin-not only because he was my brother, but because I knew it would please Pappy."

I wish any indifferent person had been present to have seen the expression of my poor Harriet's countenance at the end of this pretty speech.

"However, I have been," said Kate, “and have done what is right, and have bought what I wanted at the shop; and now I shan't want to go out any more till the funeral."

"You continue," said I, "in the same mind

about going to the funeral, Kitty?"

"Pappy

"Of course I do," said Kate. wishes it; and Mr. Sniggs, when he comes here, -either this afternoon or to-morrow, I forget which.

(He said he would come when he

could,) will tell you that it is the express

desire of Pappy that we should go."

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Pray, Kitty," said I, "didn't my brother send any note or letter to me? You havn't forgotten or mislaid any parcel ?"

"O no," said Kate; "Pappy said that as poor Tom was turned out of the house, and died at the Doctor's, you of course cared nothing about it; and he is so much obliged to the Sniggses, that I believe he only meant us to come here because the Sniggses have no room in their house for us."

"No, Kate," said Jane, "I don't think Pappy meant that: he said, as long as Ashmead belonged to Uncle Gilbert we might as well have the use of it."

"Ah, well," said Kitty, "it was something of that sort, I know."

Here slipped out unintentionally a pretty sort of allusion to my occupancy, which did not escape the notice of Harriet, who, I believe, permitted this scene to be acted in her room, in order to catch the points as they fell.

"However," said Kate, "I am glad I went, for I have got the music part all settled." "The what?" said Harriet.

"The music," said Kate. "Pappy was very anxious-so Mrs. Brandyball writes, at least—

that there should be some solemn music played upon the organ when poor Tom was brought

"I know," said Harriet, "I have heard that.”

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They do it abroad, don't they?" said Jane, in perfect innocence.

"I don't know, dear," said Harriet.

and," and,

"Well,

"So as Mr. Sniggs told us," said Kate, "in the morning, that Mr. Stopzanpoff, the German, who is organist here, is gone to London, I got Mrs. Sniggs to call on Mr. Kittington, who plays upon all sorts of instruments, to ask him to do the dirge."

"And was he at home?" said I.

"Yes," said Kate "and he has promised to do it, out of respect to Pappy."

"Miss Kitty," said Harriet, firing with rage, and rising from her seat, "this is too bad!-I declare--"

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pray, pray

"Harriet, my love," said I, “ consider."