she didn't.

Mr. Jukesbury sighed.

"A naughty world," said he, with pathos--"a very naughty world, which

really does not deserve the honour of including you in its census

reports. Yet I dare say it has the effrontery to put you down in the

tax-lists; it even puts me down--me, an humble worker in the vineyard,

with both hands set to the plough. And if I don't pay up it sells

me out. A very naughty world, indeed! I dare say," Mr. Jukesbury

observed, raising his eyes--not toward heaven, but toward the Eagle,

"that its conduct, as the poet says, creates considerable distress