"It won't do any good!" she shouted after him; "we don't want no prepared food for infants—no piano music—no stuffed birds! I know the policemen on this beat, and if you come around here again, he'll soon find out whether you are a confidence man or a vagrant!"

And she took unusual care to lock the door.


THE BELL OF THE "ATLANTIC."

MRS. SIGOURNEY.

T

OLL, toll, toll!

Thou bell by billows swung,

And, night and day, thy warning words